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OpenSolaris Project: Squashfs

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Project Description and Benefits

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Squashfs is a compressed read-only file system optimized for memory-constrained systems.

We plan to write a complete driver which would enable the kernel to boot from a Squashfs file system, thus enabling Live-CD/DVDs to use it.

It would also allow Solaris to access embedded devices using Squashfs, such as some Motorola phones.

Goals

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The Squashfs project aims to port the Squashfs file system, originally written by Phillip Lougher for the Linux kernel, to OpenSolaris.

Its final goal is to make OpenSolaris able to boot from a Squashfs-formatted media, such as a Live-CD.

Interested?

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You are welcome to contribute! This project can be a good start in the kernel development, and more specifically, it will teach you how to deal with the Solaris VFS layer.

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Announcements

12 Dec 2007	Squashfs 3.3 utilities for Solaris released
29 Nov 2007	Squashfs project start