About:
Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib to compress files, inodes, and directories. All blocks are packed to minimize the data overhead, and block sizes of between 4K and 1M are supported. It is intended to be used for archival use, for live CDs, and for embedded systems where low overhead is needed.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This release has a lot of improvements, both to the filesystem itself (bigger blocks and sparse files) and to the tools Mksquashfs and Unsquashfs, which now support wildcard pattern matching in exclude/extract files. There are other improvements and bugfixes.

Author:
Phil Lougher [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.41/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://squashfs.sourceforge.net
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63835

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		Software Development :: Embedded Systems, System :: Archiving :: Compression, System :: Filesystems, System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	3.4	28-Aug-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
3.4	Major feature enhancements	28-Aug-2008 08:08
3.3	Major feature enhancements	02-Nov-2007 18:16
3.2	Major feature enhancements	03-Jan-2007 21:45
3.1-r2	Minor bugfixes	31-Aug-2006 02:05
3.1	Major feature enhancements	23-Aug-2006 12:57
3.0	Major feature enhancements	17-Mar-2006 06:06
2.2	Minor feature enhancements	06-Jul-2005 18:15
2.1	Major feature enhancements	15-Dec-2004 14:35
2.0	Major feature enhancements	14-Jul-2004 02:27
2.0-ALPHA	Major feature enhancements	21-May-2004 17:56