http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3ASquashfsTalk:Squashfs - Revision history2026-04-10T06:01:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.19.2http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Squashfs&diff=50671&oldid=prevAnonymoususer852: /* *BSD support for Squashfs */ new section2025-08-07T10:15:57Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">*BSD support for Squashfs: </span> new section</span></p>
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</table>Anonymoususer852http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Squashfs&diff=50588&oldid=prevAnonymoususer852: Add Talk page for discussion.2025-07-31T19:47:39Z<p>Add Talk page for discussion.</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Storing file metadata via pseudo file ==<br />
File metadata such as user/group name or ID along with file permissions is a common trait among Unices and their native filesystems. While this feature has been carried over to [[Tar]], preservation of original metadata contents has been limited. <ref>[https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/issues/44 Fakeroot with Mksquashfs doesn't work with extended capabilities #44 - GitHub]</ref> Since circa [https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases/tag/4.6 4.6 release of squashfs-tools], it is theoretically possible to create a compressed filesystem with original metadata via the use of pseudo file.<ref>[https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/blob/master/Documentation/manpages/mksquashfs.1#L399-L417 mksquashfs.1 - Manpage of <code>mksquashfs</code> - GitHub]</ref> This does not include hard links, which means any hard links will need to be converted to sym(bolic) links.<br />
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There are other limitations with this hack, such as (but are not limited to):<br />
* The likely loss of original user/group names, it will be stored as ID which consists of numbers,<br />
* Ambiguous user/group name translation when storing multiple extracted archive contents, e.g. G(roup)ID 0 which is typically reserved for "root" on modern Unices is shared as "wheel" on older Unices,<br />
* Tedious pseudo file creation when the contents of Squashfs image contains several of extracted archive contents, e.g. a FTP dump but without inclusion of compressed files.<ref>[https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/issues/284 [Feature request}: Dump pseudo file only, no dumping of individual file contents into pseudo file #284 - GitHub]</ref><br />
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[[User:Anonymoususer852|Anonymoususer852]] ([[User talk:Anonymoususer852|talk]]) 19:47, 31 July 2025 (UTC)</div>Anonymoususer852