2 tristate "SquashFS 4.0 - Squashed file system support"
6 Saying Y here includes support for SquashFS 4.0 (a Compressed
7 Read-Only File System). Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only
8 filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib/lzo compression to compress both
9 files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small
10 and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes
11 greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 1 Mbytes (default
12 block size 128K). SquashFS 4.0 supports 64 bit filesystems and files
13 (larger than 4GB), full uid/gid information, hard links and
16 Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for
17 archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in
18 embedded systems where low overhead is needed. Further information
19 and tools are available from http://squashfs.sourceforge.net.
21 If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be
22 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
23 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
24 will be called squashfs. Note that the root file system (the one
25 containing the directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
30 bool "Squashfs XATTR support"
33 Saying Y here includes support for extended attributes (xattrs).
34 Xattrs are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
35 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page).
40 bool "Include support for LZO compressed file systems"
44 Saying Y here includes support for reading Squashfs file systems
45 compressed with LZO compresssion. LZO compression is mainly
46 aimed at embedded systems with slower CPUs where the overheads
49 LZO is not the standard compression used in Squashfs and so most
50 file systems will be readable without selecting this option.
55 bool "Include support for XZ compressed file systems"
59 Saying Y here includes support for reading Squashfs file systems
60 compressed with XZ compresssion. XZ gives better compression than
61 the default zlib compression, at the expense of greater CPU and
64 XZ is not the standard compression used in Squashfs and so most
65 file systems will be readable without selecting this option.
69 config SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED
70 bool "Additional option for memory-constrained systems"
73 Saying Y here allows you to specify cache size.
77 config SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE
78 int "Number of fragments cached" if SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED
82 By default SquashFS caches the last 3 fragments read from
83 the filesystem. Increasing this amount may mean SquashFS
84 has to re-read fragments less often from disk, at the expense
85 of extra system memory. Decreasing this amount will mean
86 SquashFS uses less memory at the expense of extra reads from disk.
88 Note there must be at least one cached fragment. Anything
89 much more than three will probably not make much difference.