From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758476AbZDEXlq (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753959AbZDEXlh (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:41:37 -0400 Received: from lon1-post-3.mail.demon.net ([195.173.77.150]:35602 "EHLO lon1-post-3.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752937AbZDEXlg (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:41:36 -0400 Message-ID: <49D941C1.1050007@lougher.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:41:53 +0100 From: Phillip Lougher User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Development , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Embedded Maillist Subject: Squashfs 4.0 tools (for 2.6.29) released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm pleased to announce the first release of the squashfs 4.0 tools. These are needed by any Squashfs users using linux 2.6.29. They are available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/squashfs The changes from the change-log are: 1. Unsquashfs improvements: 1.1 Support for 4.0 filesystems added. 1.2 Swapping macros rewritten. 1.3 Unsquashfs code restructured and split into separate files. 2. Mksquashfs improvements: 2.1 Swapping macros rewritten. Fixed little-endian layout allows code to be optimised and only added at compile time for big endian systems. 2.2 Support for pseudo files added. New Mksquashfs options Mksquashfs now supports pseudo files, these allow fake directories, character and block devices to be specified and added to the Squashfs filesystem being built, rather than requiring them to be present in the source directories. This, for example, allows device nodes to be added to the filesystem without requiring root access. Phillip