Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux.
-It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, or xz compression to compress files, inodes and
+It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, xz or zstd compression to compress files, inodes and
directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to
minimise data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a
maximum of 1Mbytes (default block size 128K).
block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is
needed.
-Mailing list: squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
-Web site: www.squashfs.org
+Mailing list (kernel code): linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
+Web site: github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools
1. Filesystem Features
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As squashfs is a read-only filesystem, the mksquashfs program must be used to
create populated squashfs filesystems. This and other squashfs utilities
-can be obtained from http://www.squashfs.org. Usage instructions can be
-obtained from this site also.
-
-The squashfs-tools development tree is now located on kernel.org
- git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/squashfs/squashfs-tools.git
+are very likely packaged by your linux distribution (called squashfs-tools).
+The source code can be obtained from github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools.
+Usage instructions can also be obtained from this site.
2.1 Mount options
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