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A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images

10 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-11-30 · latest 2023-04-06

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  1. …argument passing yet :-) I had a lot of fun with this (more explanation in the issue comments): https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/issues/96#issuec... I tried to test it with the only other two languages I know besides English:…
    comment by st_goliath · 2023-04-06 · in C Strings and my slow descent to madness
  2. …the files have the correct owners, mode, etc.) and then convert it to squashfs using `tar2sqfs` in https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng , also without root - I've done something like this to create squashfs images in constrained…
    comment by bminor13 · 2021-10-18 · in Firecracker MicroVMs
  3. …supported warning flags[3]. [1] https://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git/blob/HEAD:/configure... [2] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/conf... [3] https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/master/m4/compil...
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-08-31 · in Getting the maximum of your C compiler, for security
  4. …https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/READ... Oh yes? Which part? > ... calling it spaghetti code (which isn't immediately verifiable) Here
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-07-24 · in Squashfs turning 20, Squashfs tools 4.5 released
  5. …[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20518019 [4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/1/1154 [5] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/issues/10 [6] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931965#29 [7]…
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-07-24 · in Squashfs turning 20, Squashfs tools 4.5 released
  6. …in addition to zlib, in my benchmark Zstd also clearly beats LZO in terms of speed and size. [1] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/... [2] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/...
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-07-03 · in Compressing JSON: Gzip vs. Zstd
  7. …that defines macros for the MacOS functions and including the right headers. Something like this: https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/incl... This is usually my go-to-solution for working with low level on-disk or…
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-05-08 · in The Byte Order Fiasco
  8. …it, in many ways the GNU project IMO ended up doing "embrace, extend, extinguish" with Unix. [1] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/tree/master/lib/... [2] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=5 [3]…
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-03-30 · in Tar is an ill-specified format (2015)
  9. …ratio somewhere between zlib and xz, while beating both in time ( in my benchmark at least). [1] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/... [2] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/... [3]…
    comment by st_goliath · 2021-01-27 · in LZ4 – Extremely fast compression
  10. …format for DwarFS and it's packing works which might explain the incredible size difference? [1] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng [2] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/blob/master/doc/... [3]…
    comment by st_goliath · 2020-11-30 · in DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system