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authorDavid Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>2019-06-30 23:05:48 +0200
committerDavid Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>2019-06-30 23:05:48 +0200
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Update documentation
Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
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At the moment, the following things still require some work:
- - more testing
+ - more testing (extensive unit testing for libsqfs still needed)
- extended attributes
- - currently limited to SELinux labeling only
- - rdsquashfs ignores them entirely
- - SquashFS supports deduplicating values through "out of line"
- storage but this is currently not used yet.
- - hard links (not implemented yet; do we even want this?)
+ - gensquashfs supports SELinux labeling only
+ - rdsquashfs, sqfs2tar and tar2sqfs ignore them entirely
+ - entire key value blocks are deduplicated, but individual value
+ deduplication ("out of line" storage) isn't implemented.
+ - hard links (not implemented; tar2sqfs turns them into symlinks)
- File deduplication (not implemented; do we even need this?)
- NFS export tables (not implemented yet)
-At the moment, tar2sqfs also has some limitations on what it can process:
- - only POSIX tar archives with pax extensions (use --posix for GNU tar)
- - no sparse files or hard links (converted to symlink)
-
-
Future plans
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