# squashfs (WIP)

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A PURE Go library to read and write squashfs.

Currently has support for reading squashfs files and extracting files and folders.

Special thanks to <https://dr-emann.github.io/squashfs/> for some VERY important information in an easy to understand format.
Thanks also to [distri's squashfs library](https://github.com/distr1/distri/tree/master/internal/squashfs) as I referenced it to figure some things out (and double check others).

## [TODO](https://github.com/CalebQ42/squashfs/projects/1?fullscreen=true)

## Limitations

* No Xattr parsing. This is simply because I haven't done any research on it and how to apply these in a pure go way.

## Performance

This library, decompressing the Firefox AppImage and using go tests, takes about twice as long as `unsquashfs` on my quad core laptop. (~1 second with the library and about half a second with `unsquashfs`).

**My recents tests have shown the Firefox AppImage might be an outlier and this library might be considerably slower (4x ~ 6x time slower then `unsquashfs`)**