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The filesystems category houses file systems and file system utilities. It is added mainly to turn the sysutils/fusefs-* pseudo-category into a proper one, but is also useful for the sundry of other file systems related ports found in the tree. Ports that seem like they belong there are moved to the new category. Two ports, sysutils/fusefs-funionfs and sysutils/fusefs-fusepak are not moved as they currently don't fetch and don't have TIMESTAMP set in their distinfo, but that is required to be able to push a rename of the port by the pre-receive hook. Approved by: portmgr (rene) Reviewed by: mat Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/302 PR: 281988
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SquashFS is a highly compressed, read-only file system often used as
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a root file system on embedded devices, live systems, or simply as a
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compressed archive format.
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This project originally started out as a fork of squashfs-tools 4.3,
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after encountering some short comings and realizing that there have
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been no updates on the SourceForge site or mailing list for a long
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time. Even before the first public release, the fork was replaced
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with a complete re-write after growing frustrated with the existing
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code base.
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The utilities provided by squashfs-tools-ng offer alternative tooling
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and are intentionally named differently, so both packages can be
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installed side by side.
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The actual guts of squashfs-tools-ng are encapsulated in a library
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with a generic API designed to make SquashFS available to other
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applications as an embeddable, extensible archive format (or simply
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to read, write, or manipulate SquashFS file systems).
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