What is the difference between .squashfs and .xz?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Phillip Lougher
- Tukaani
- 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.
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/x-xz
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .xz on Wikipedia