A Patch for Squashfs to Improve the Compressed Files Contents Search: HSFS

Nicola Corriero · 2011

SquashFS is a Linux compress file system. Hixosfs is a file system to improve file content search by using metadata information's. In this paper we propose to use Hixosfs idea in Squash FS context by creating a new file system HSFS. HSFS is a compress Linux file system to store metadata within nodes. We compare our idea with other common solutions. We test our idea with DICOM file used to store medical images.

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