Package: wnpp Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : squashfs-mount Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Ben Cumming <bcumm...@cscs.ch> Simon Pintarelli <simon.pintare...@cscs.ch> Harmen Stoppels <harmenstopp...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/eth-cscs/squashfs-mount * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C Description : setuid utility instead of FUSE for mounting squashfs files squashfs-mount is a small setuid binary that effectively runs mount -n -o loop,nosuid,nodev,ro -t squashfs [image] [mountpoint] in a mount namespace and then executes the given command as the invoking user. squashfs-mount is used within the CSCS and the motivation for this utility is described in the upstream README. 1. Bad performance compared to the Linux kernel. Using a 700MB gzip compressed squashfs file containing GCC, the time to build a subset (2k targets) of LLVM 14.0.5: squashfs-mount: 8m 9.52s; squashfuse 0.1.103 / fuse 3.9.0: 12m 49.00s. squashfuse has about 57% overhead compiling LLVM. 2. Inconvenient when scripting.
