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What advantages does cloop have over squashfs? Quick search revealed only that cloop is slower and has a bit worse compression than squashfs [0].

[0] https://elinux.org/Squash_Fs_Comparisons

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the difference that i find valuable is that cloop is not a file system, whereas squashfs is. this means that i can use cloop to compress _any_ file system at the block level. very useful as a sys-admin.

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