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bug#42223: 26.1; squashfs-mode (like tar-mode or zip-mode)
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Trent W. Buck |
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bug#42223: 26.1; squashfs-mode (like tar-mode or zip-mode) |
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Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:08:05 +1000 |
squashfs is sort of a cross between .iso and .tgz:
tar c my-docs | tar2sq my-docs.squashfs # make archive
gensquashfs -D my-docs my-docs.squashfs # make archive
sudo mount my-docs.squashfs /mnt # mount it (like iso)
rdsquashfs -u my-docs2 my-docs.squashfs # extract all (like tar)
rdsquashfs --list / my-docs.squashfs # list all (like tar)
rdsquashfs --cat foo.txt my-docs.squashfs # read one file
I've used squashfs instead of iso/tar/zip for about 15 years now.
Emacs has "good enough" unzip and tar modes -- I click on foo.odt,
see the file list, click on a file, and see the file contents.
Please can I have that for squashfs as well?
This basically means providing a dired-like wrapper for
"rdsquashfs --list" and "rdsquashfs --cat".
Additional notes:
* Buffers should be read-only-mode by default.
(Squashfs format has limited append support, but
it's essentially a read-only format.)
* There are two major implementations.
I have given examples in squashfs-tools-ng format, because
that is more amenable to scripting.
https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng
https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools
* squashfs files are often very big (~2GB), so
reading the whole thing into RAM like tar-mode does is a Bad Idea.
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