
# About

SquashFS is a highly compressed, read only file system often used as a root fs
on embedded devices, live systems or simply as a compressed archive format.

Think of it as a .tar.gz that you can mount (or XZ, LZO, LZ4, ZSTD).

This project originally started out as a fork of squashfs-tools 4.3, after
encountering some short comings and realizing that there have been no updates
on the SourceForge site or mailing list for a long time. Even before the first
public release, the fork was replaced with a complete re-write after growing
frustrated with the existing code base. For lack of a better name, and because
the original appeared to be unmaintained at the time, the name squashfs-tools-ng
was kept, although the published code base technically never had any connection
to squashfs-tools.

Maintenance of the original squashfs-tools has since resumed, squashfs-tools
version 4.4 was released and continues to be maintained in parallel. The
utilities provided by squashfs-tools-ng offer alternative tooling and are
intentionally named differently, so both packages can be installed side by
...

Homepage:
https://infraroot.at/pub/squashfs/
