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author | plougher <plougher> | 2005-12-20 16:54:45 +0000 |
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committer | Mohamad Ayyash <mkayyash@google.com> | 2015-02-23 12:33:41 -0800 |
commit | 8031ed874315d6bec5783a24d10067d2a373ffd9 (patch) | |
tree | 447156dc60c0c0e8583a76c1b8e3e214a32fc3d8 /README | |
parent | afa96e7de9e087ed4602e4b615e8bd003b857d8a (diff) | |
download | squashfs-tools-8031ed874315d6bec5783a24d10067d2a373ffd9.tar.gz |
Restructured README.
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@@ -1,15 +1,5 @@ -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. + |