Description:

This package contains utilities for squashfs filesystem with lzma
compression.

Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux (kernel
2.4.x and 2.6.x). It uses lzma compression to compress files, inodes
and directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks
are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are
supported up to a maximum of 64K.

Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for
archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in
constrained block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where
low overhead is needed.