Lzma squashfs patch

Comment 24 Robert A. Comment 25 Robert A. Comment 28 Robert A. Comment 29 Robert A. Comment 30 jpike UTC. Comment 31 jpike UTC. Comment 35 Piotr UTC. New packages show other bugs. High enhancement vote. Attachments squashfs-tools Details Diff.

Show Obsolete 1 View All Add an attachment proposed patch, testcase, etc. Description Russell Harmon UTC I added a lzma use flag to squashfs-tools to enable support for sqlzma patched squashfs filesystems.

Please, send such patches upstream and not to Gentoo; not maintainable in a reasonable way. Squashfs' author couldn't support LZMA directly in squashfs source code. This was the main reason we had to maintain LZMA support as a separate patch. As already said, recent squashfs doesn't need any patches neither to kernel nor to the tools.

Simply download squashfs tools v4. Then you can compress your files using for example: mksquashfs source1 dest. The standard version of SquashFS uses gzip compression. Requirements 1 squashfs-tools with LZMA patches. This package provides tools mksquashfs, unsquashfs to create Squashfs filesystem. It provides mksquashfs. So if you want create LZMA compressed filesystem you must use:. Without it you cant't mount your LZMA compressed filesystems. Here is two ways on how to get it. Build kernel as usual and after that you can mount LZMA compressed filesystems.

I am not Linux guru. And i think that this method is not optimal but it works. Any suggestions are welcome from experienced users.