Yep, it's similar, but squashfs is more optimized than zip files for random access like a filesystem (rather than an archive). Also when using zstd-based squas

Yep, it's similar, but squashfs is more optimized than zip files for random access like a filesystem (rather than an archive). Also when using zstd-based squashfs files, there is much less overhead for the decompression itself which effectively becomes free.