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"
34 Saying Y here includes support for extended attributes (xattrs).
35 Xattrs are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
36 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page).
41 bool "Include support for LZO compressed file systems"
46 Saying Y here includes support for reading Squashfs file systems
47 compressed with LZO compresssion. LZO compression is mainly
48 aimed at embedded systems with slower CPUs where the overheads
51 LZO is not the standard compression used in Squashfs and so most
52 file systems will be readable without selecting this option.
56 config SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED
57 bool "Additional option for memory-constrained systems"
61 Saying Y here allows you to specify cache size.
65 config SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE
66 int "Number of fragments cached" if SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED
70 By default SquashFS caches the last 3 fragments read from
71 the filesystem. Increasing this amount may mean SquashFS
72 has to re-read fragments less often from disk, at the expense
73 of extra system memory. Decreasing this amount will mean
74 SquashFS uses less memory at the expense of extra reads from disk.
76 Note there must be at least one cached fragment. Anything
77 much more than three will probably not make much difference.