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authorplougher <plougher>2005-12-20 16:54:45 +0000
committerMohamad Ayyash <mkayyash@google.com>2015-02-23 12:33:41 -0800
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-This is a prerelease of 3.0, backwards compatibility with 1.x filesystems
-is not supported. Mounting of Squashfs 2.x filesystems does work.
-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.
+This is an updated pre-release of 3.0. Squashfs 3.0 is a major improvement to
+Squashfs. Squashfs 3.0 offers the following improvements to Squashfs 2.x.
1. Filesystems are no longer limited to 4 GB. In
theory 2^64 or 4 exabytes is now supported.
@@ -30,3 +20,17 @@ improvements have been made.
computed from inode location on disk (this is not so much an
improvement, but a change forced by the previously listed
improvements).
+
+
+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.
+
+As this is a prerelease of 3.0, there are the following limitations:
+
+ 1. Mounting 1.x filesystems is not supported
+ Mounting of Squashfs 2.x filesystems does work.
+ 2. Mksquashfs will not append to filesystems.
+