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SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster"


SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images

SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. Phillip Lougher announced the release of SquashFS Tools 4.7 this evening and reports that it can be "20% to more than ten times faster" depending upon the source media and input files. When dealing with small files and depending upon the storage medium, this can net some really big performance improvements compared to prior SquashFS Tools releases.

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