From patchwork Sun Dec 29 23:37:51 2024 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Phillip Lougher X-Patchwork-Id: 13922866 Received: from sxb1plsmtpa01-12.prod.sxb1.secureserver.net (sxb1plsmtpa01-12.prod.sxb1.secureserver.net [188.121.53.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 63AD619882F for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=188.121.53.131 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1735515686; cv=none; b=oEqJVJEh9tJLzyShNls7zXkB1dPRGhe6s8wuxsEFEp/+G2vuGrNGHyWem/q59HmU5wHxdEQm8H5zz1BLt/2fkKVzZjsBi22efLFCpsl4E6B30TdxPRIs0Fv3zQcye+d8XdOvWVaW8Yl9QEvVwpcaP6OuAED0cQniOi2kwspv4r0= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1735515686; c=relaxed/simple; bh=HrfHQrEXWE6KXcctRVRJvbH3DR/f1Rvc4kf5v+IYuTQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=TACwZ3eHTDiZEs8ejdcOg0F7nLMnOHu/ZUe9c3ITdUtzruFTkvOGuwE61Ew/ySB2iQa2Y6NoWV0YU3xGqhFCacPS/TNWUbil7mEu0H6MaXp0H2DgpHULauiMmrn2P7srz2SInsnMXiTJsybKl3pYSln2JZSIEM2Y67yo4kL4JyY= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=squashfs.org.uk; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=squashfs.org.uk; arc=none smtp.client-ip=188.121.53.131 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=squashfs.org.uk Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=squashfs.org.uk Received: from raspberrypi.fritz.box ([82.69.79.175]) by :SMTPAUTH: with ESMTPA id S2rotGQTRxZ1ZS2s0tFiUA; Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:38:53 -0700 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=S8MjwJsP c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=6771dd8e a=84ok6UeoqCVsigPHarzEiQ==:117 a=84ok6UeoqCVsigPHarzEiQ==:17 a=aUFYUWTwAAAA:8 a=FXvPX3liAAAA:8 a=FP58Ms26AAAA:8 a=VwQbUJbxAAAA:8 a=NEAV23lmAAAA:8 a=7dKtaLcL_q_8H7sW4w8A:9 a=o1zmNsm2e553tv4nPYj3:22 a=UObqyxdv-6Yh2QiB9mM_:22 X-SECURESERVER-ACCT: phillip@squashfs.org.uk From: Phillip Lougher To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Phillip Lougher Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: update the Squashfs filesystem documentation Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:37:51 +0000 Message-Id: <20241229233752.54481-4-phillip@squashfs.org.uk> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.5 In-Reply-To: <20241229233752.54481-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk> References: <20241229233752.54481-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfG8CqR9RklzqpChEkxkSycmMku7z5wab+PIvYuO88BVrS6c1FOxyt0AsIHOfm0PoLL47HG5jiXsZd93TkH+4U+itqUrQ3o1Q/KYqrKHNk74JNp2YyjXw dGo7jj6xsrtMhDrhHXc16wwmyWHBcwSl6QUc/N7+GVWeR2v4bKhP76htURYiqvuXvyWzDwLOElcQ/FDOiwVpD3H017JLDsZXRezap2N5MhvbB9t8n0x/3wZr PZbQn7xEhMvcnEMb+6cNydqGg8MzvR+5ze15B+qPsuIoQS5O0vqKXmmbtjTHmMHFhoeBQSdQbs7o4C60ru3vSn2krlA7PzgoXRT6XuaZwLM= This patch updates the following which are out of date. - Zstd has been added to the compression algorithms supported. - The filesystem mailing list (for the kernel code) is changed to linux-fsdevel rather than the now very little used Sourceforge mailing list. - The Squashfs website has been changed to the Squashfs-tools github repository. - The fact that Squashfs-tools is likely packaged by the linux distribution is mentioned. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher --- Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst index 4af8d6207509..45653b3228f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Squashfs 4.0 Filesystem Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. -It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, or xz compression to compress files, inodes and +It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, xz or zstd compression to compress files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 1Mbytes (default block size 128K). @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed. -Mailing list: squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net -Web site: www.squashfs.org +Mailing list (kernel code): linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org +Web site: github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools 1. Filesystem Features ---------------------- @@ -58,11 +58,9 @@ inodes have different sizes). As squashfs is a read-only filesystem, the mksquashfs program must be used to create populated squashfs filesystems. This and other squashfs utilities -can be obtained from http://www.squashfs.org. Usage instructions can be -obtained from this site also. - -The squashfs-tools development tree is now located on kernel.org - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/squashfs/squashfs-tools.git +are very likely packaged by your linux distribution (called squashfs-tools). +The source code can be obtained from github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools. +Usage instructions can also be obtained from this site. 2.1 Mount options -----------------