It fills a similar niche as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS but has different data compression characteristics. H

It fills a similar niche as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS but has different data compression characteristics. However, since it's a FUSE only file system, it's difficult to see how it would be used on embedded system firmware, so it could perhaps see use as a distribution mechanism. Similar to tar or zip files, but possibly with (much) better performance for random access, should you need only smaller portion of the whole archive. The author indicates need for keeping multiple similar copies of sets of unchanging files on their computer, and made this to reduce the space needed for them, while retaining the access through the file system. So that is also a use case.