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@@ -28,12 +28,21 @@ tools that attempt to address many of the problems of the old tools:
maintainable in the long run.
+In addition to that, tools have been added to directly convert a tar archive
+into a SquashFS file system image and back. Although the scope of those tools
+is limited, and it is suggested to only use those for quick testing, this
+allows for using existing tools can work on tar archives to on SquashFS
+images.
+
+
The tools in this package have different names, so they can be installed in
together with the existing tools:
- `gensquashfs` can be used to produce SquashFS images from `gen_init_cpio`
like file listings or simply pack an input directory.
- `rdsquashfs` can be used to inspect and unpack SquashFS images.
+ - `sqfs2tar` can turn a SquashFS image into a tar ball, written to stdout.
+ - `tar2sqfs` can turn a tar ball (read from stdin) into a SquashFS image.
Limitations
@@ -53,6 +62,12 @@ At the moment, the following things still require some work:
- 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)
+ - way fewer tuning options than gensquashfs
+
+
Future plans
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