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		pmahoney on May 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Need A Standard Layered Image Format It also, unlike tar.gz, provides an index for easily seeking to and extracting just one file from the zip archive. My understanding is that doing this in a .tar.gz means unzipping and processing the whole tarball as a stream.

derefr on May 1, 2013 [–]

Indeed--squashfs was basically created to deal with the inadequacies of random-access-extraction from compressed tarballs.

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