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I haven’t noticed a gain, but also no substantial hit for day-to-day use. I can only speculate as to why containers are not using SquashFS, but my first guess

by secure 7y ago

I haven’t noticed a gain, but also no substantial hit for day-to-day use. I can only speculate as to why containers are not using SquashFS, but my first guess would be that they wanted to use something more broadly supported. Manipulating SquashFS images is not as commonly available in different programming languages as dealing with e.g. tar archives.

drudru11 7y ago
If there isn’t a performance hit, and you get all the benefits (especially atomicity), this seems like a nice, easy win. I will tinker with SquashFS today. Thanks for writing this up.