On 18 October 2012 22:31, Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]> wrote: >> No it's not useless. >> squashfs3-tools is still useful to generate squashfs3 images for other >> systems with older kernels, and this is still used for some embedded >> devices, I use this at work. > > Humm.... > Kernel didn't support squashfs3 for years when we were still > working at mdv... > No Mageia release ever had support for reading squashfs3 in > its kernel. > But you can still generate images for such older systems. > I won't oppose a revert.
Though I would question developing for a target using squashfs3 whereas we switched to v4 in 2009 when it was officially included in kernel... That means targeting 2.6.28 at most...
