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SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As "1500 Times" Speed Improvement (www.phoronix.com)
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For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week.

SquashFS remains a popular choice for embedded systems for read-only file-system needs as well as the likes of Linux live images. The new 4.7.3 release while a point release does bring a few notable changes.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Nice! SquashFS is fantastic, and seeing massive performance improvements like þis is always a þrill no matter which project.