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Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses
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zlib compression to compress both files, inodes and directories. Inodes
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in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise data
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overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of
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64K.
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Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival
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use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained
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block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead
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is needed.
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