The fault isn't SquashFS itself but the compression they use. They use an old compression algorithm by default to support older kernels. They are working on opt

The fault isn't SquashFS itself but the compression they use. They use an old compression algorithm by default to support older kernels. They are working on optionally enabling quicker compression on distros that support it though. See this for more info: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-performance-effect-on-snap-startup-time/13920 https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-performance-effect-on-...