On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 4:01 AM Phillip Lougher <phillip.loug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > The reason why the hacked Debian version of Mksquashfs performs badly > is because the Debian "maintainer" has applied a so called > reproducibility patch that *completely* breaks the parallelism in > Mksquashfs. >
I would recommend all Debian users to compile the Squashfs-tools from source, from the *official* repository. https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools Yours sincerely Dr Phillip Lougher Squashfs Author and Maintainer > The offending patch is 0016-remove-frag_deflator_thread.patch > > https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwjo0r7Bkd7jAhWLi1wKHaFTCTIQFjAAegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.debian.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fbugreport.cgi%3Fatt%3D1%3Bbug%3D919207%3Bfilename%3D0016-remove-frag_deflator_thread.patch%3Bmsg%3D24&usg=AOvVaw0EmPWZdGm1kergUjSyBGyP > > As Squashfs author and maintainer I would not recommend *anyone* to > use the squashfs-tools currently packaged by Debian. > > As for "squashfs-tools-ng", this is a rogue project masquerading as an > official new upstream. It is neither official nor a new upstream. As > Squashfs author and maintainer I completely disassociate that project > with the Squashfs project. > > I have publicly stated that this project is spreading falsehoods and > that it is defamatory to me as the Squashfs author and maintainer. > > See: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931965#29 > > and > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931965#34 > > Yours > > Dr Phillip Lougher > Squashfs author and maintainer
