Data, inodes and directories are compressed.
Squashfs stores full uid/gids (32 bits), and file creation time.
Files up to 2^64 bytes are supported. Filesystems can be up to 2^64 bytes.
Inode and directory data are highly compacted, and packed on byte
boundaries. Each compressed inode is on average 8 bytes in length (the exact
length varies on file type, i.e. regular file, directory, symbolic link,
and block/char device inodes have different sizes).
Squashfs can use block sizes up to 1Mbytes (the default size is 128K).
Using 128K blocks achieves greater compression ratios than the normal 4K
block size.
File duplicates are detected and removed.
Both big and little endian architectures are supported. The mksquashfs
program can generate filesystems for different endian architectures for
cases where the host byte ordering is different to the target. This is
useful for embedded systems.
Squashfs stores full uid/gids (32 bits), and file creation time.
Files up to 2^64 bytes are supported. Filesystems can be up to 2^64 bytes.
Inode and directory data are highly compacted, and packed on byte
boundaries. Each compressed inode is on average 8 bytes in length (the exact
length varies on file type, i.e. regular file, directory, symbolic link,
and block/char device inodes have different sizes).
Squashfs can use block sizes up to 1Mbytes (the default size is 128K).
Using 128K blocks achieves greater compression ratios than the normal 4K
block size.
File duplicates are detected and removed.
Both big and little endian architectures are supported. The mksquashfs
program can generate filesystems for different endian architectures for
cases where the host byte ordering is different to the target. This is
useful for embedded systems.