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+This is the initial import of Squashfs 3.0.  This is a prerelease
+of 3.0, and so backwards compatibility with older versions (1.x, 2.x)
+is not supported, and mksquashfs will not append to filesystems.
+
+The kernel code is for linux 2.6.x and should work on all recent
+versions of the 2.6 kernel.  The kernel files should be applied to
+an existing Squashfs 2.2-r2 patched kernel, the files replace the
+Squashfs files, keeping the necessary Squashfs patches in the other
+kernel files.
+
+Squashfs 3.0 is a major improvement to Squashfs.  The following
+improvements have been made.
+
+	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. 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).