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From: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:09:49 UTC
The branch main has been updated by salvadore:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=003241a249ea323301882cf26763f590bfa95d33

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Author:     Raghav Sharma <raghav@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-07-22 13:03:19 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-07-22 13:09:02 +0000

    Status/2023Q2/squashfs.adoc: Add report
    
    Approved by:    dbaio (mentor, implicit)
    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/229
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+=== 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 <raghav@FreeBSD.org>
+
+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