What is the difference between .squashfs and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Phillip Lougher
- Igor Pavlov
- Description
- It is a Linux compressed a read-only file that supports compression of block sizes from 4 KiB to 1 MiB using various compression codecs. The free application used to access Squashfs filesystems is also known as Squashfs.
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia