Skip to content

Here we go!
Compare
Choose a tag to compare
@Gottox Gottox released this 28 Sep 11:56
· 1477 commits to main since this release
v0.1.0
4d6aceb

This is the first release of libsqsh, a C library for reading squashfs images.

At this state, libsqsh is feature complete, but has a unrefined (and largely undocmented) API. In order to improve this situation I want to encourage people to try out the library and give feedback, especially about performance and developer experience.

Features

The full set of sqashfs features is supported. This includes, but is not limited to extended attributes, export tables, **

This library can be build with only libc as a dependency. Optionally the following compression algorithms are supported:

  • zlib
  • lz4
  • lzma
  • lzo2 (default off, due to licensing incompatibilities, only enable if you know what you're doing!)
  • zstd

Furthermore libsqsh supports remote mounting through curl. This is largely done in order to improve the debugging experience, but there might be interesting scenarios to mount remote squashfs images through http for example.

There's optional support for fuse integrated too. If enabled, libsqsh will build a command line tool that allows to mount squashfs images with fuse. The library will not be affected by this build flag.

Outlook

The next releases will focus on improving performance by adding a caching system and reducing system calls Also - depending on feedback - a refined API will be introduced.

Assets 2
Loading