SquashFS

SquashFS is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux®. SquashFS is

intended for use in constrained storage and memory systems, such as embedded ones.

 

Carbon Mountain makes extensive use of the SquashFS file system to prevent modification to critical system executibles, libraries and configuration components within KaOS™ and vKaOS™. The KaOS™ platform makes intelligent use of SquashFS file systems loaded by the loopback filesystem method in Linux®. As the Linux® kernel has no mechanism to write to the SquashFS file system once it has been generated, by its nature, SquashFS offers unique security benefits. Its excellent compression ratios and its design for embedded systems, make efficient use of ramdisk space without sacrificing speed.  

SquashFS is a core component in KaOS™ and vKaOS™.  

SquashFS can be downloaded from http://squashfs.sourceforge.net.  

KVM is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.