diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/squashfs.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/squashfs.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..874062ac88 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/squashfs.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== SquashFS port for FreeBSD kernel + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/PortSquashFuseToTheFreeBSDKernel[Wiki page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/PortSquashFuseToTheFreeBSDKernel[] + +link:https://github.com/Mashijams/freebsd-src/tree/gsoc/squashfs[Source code] URL: link:https://github.com/Mashijams/freebsd-src/tree/gsoc/squashfs[] + +Contact: Raghav Sharma + +SquashFS is a read-only file system that lets you compress whole file systems or single directories very efficiently. +Support for it has been built into the Linux kernel since 2009 and is very common in embedded Linux distributions. +The goal of this project is to add SquashFS support for the FreeBSD kernel, with the aim of being able to boot FreeBSD from an in-memory SquashFS file system. + +Currently, the driver is compatible with the 13.2 FreeBSD release. +The driver is able to correctly parse the SquashFS disk file with working man:mount[8] support. +Linux SquashFS supports many compression options like zstd, lzo2, zlib, etc... based on the user's preference, and of course, our driver supports all those compressions as well. + +Planned future work includes adding directories, files, extended attributes, and symlinks read support. +The project is still a work in progress under the mentorship from mailto:chuck@FreeBSD.org[Chuck Tuffli] and is expected to complete by the end of the Google Summer of Code program. + +Sponsor: The Google Summer of Code 2023 program