Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751385AbWCQAqK (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:46:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752464AbWCQAqJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:46:09 -0500 Received: from out-mta11.ai270.net ([83.244.130.121]:63716 "EHLO out-mta10.ai270.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751385AbWCQAqI (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:46:08 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org From: Phillip Lougher Subject: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:45:42 +0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1639 Lines: 44 Hi, Squashfs 3.0 has finally been released. Squashfs 3.0 is a major improvement to Squashfs, and it addresses most of the issues that that have been raised, particularly the 4GB filesystem and file limit. It can be obtained from the usual address http:// squashfs.sourceforge.net. There is still some work to be done, in particular NFS support which I'll add as soon as I get time. After this I'll consider resubmitting patches to the LKML. From the changelog, the improvements are as follows: 1. Filesystems are no longer limited to 4 GB. In theory 2^64 or 4 exabytes is now supported. 2. Files are no longer limited to 4 GB. In theory the maximum file size is 4 exabytes. 3. Metadata (inode table and directory tables) are no longer restricted to 16 Mbytes. 4. Hardlinks are now suppported. 5. Nlink counts are now supported. 6. Readdir now returns '.' and '..' entries. 7. Special support for files larger than 256 MB has been added to the Squashfs kernel code for faster read access. 8. Inode numbers are now stored within the inode rather than being computed from inode location on disk (this is not so much an improvement, but a change forced by the previously listed improvements). Phillip Lougher - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/