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Squashfs LZMA support

Phillip Lougher, the author of SquashFS, works already on the LZMA support, which should be included in mainline kernel.

Quote from Phillip:
I started working on LZMA support a couple of days ago. I'm hoping to get it finished for the 2.6.31 merge window, though I may miss this. It depends on whether I hit any problems, and how soon the merge window closes.
End quote;

There doesn't seem to be the LZMA code for squashfs in 2.6.31, but I can see several patches in mainline from Phillip with some LZMA bugfixes, so it appears he is really doing something with it (and he fixes LZMA code as he sees problems).

I hope to see LZMA support for mainlined squashfs in 2.6.32. Then I can start working on Slax 7.

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