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Commit 89cab5b5 authored by Phillip Lougher's avatar Phillip Lougher
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Squashfs: Update documentation to include xattrs 



One paragraph was not updated when xattrs were added to Squashfs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPhillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
parent e552a596

Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt

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Compressed data blocks are written to the filesystem as files are read from

the source directory, and checked for duplicates.  Once all file data has been

written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export and uid/gid lookup

tables are written.

written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export, uid/gid lookup and

xattr tables are written.



3.1 Compression options

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@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ in each metadata block. Directories are sorted in alphabetical order, 
and at lookup the index is scanned linearly looking for the first filename

alphabetically larger than the filename being looked up.  At this point the

location of the metadata block the filename is in has been found.

The general idea of the index is ensure only one metadata block needs to be

The general idea of the index is to ensure only one metadata block needs to be

decompressed to do a lookup irrespective of the length of the directory.

This scheme has the advantage that it doesn't require extra memory overhead

and doesn't require much extra storage on disk.