Conventional extension for squashfs files: .sqfs, .sqsh, .squashfs etc ?

[prioux]

Hi there.

Not sure if this has already been covered or discussed in the past, but I'd like to know if there is an established, accepted convention for the extension we should use for squashfs filesystems.

I can see in the documentation (right here on GitHub) that this is not completely consistent. There are examples using both .sqsh and .sqfs. I've also seen out there .squashfs and .sqs.

Personally, I dislike .sqsh, because the letters sh are strongly associated in my mind to the word shell. A file named .sqsh seems to be a script for some sort of SQ shell. Consider how we immediately think of shells when we see files named init.bash, init.tcsh, init.ksh, init.sh, etc etc.

I like .sqfs however, it's pretty clear with the letters fs that we're talking about a filesystem.

If that's OK with the developers, I volunteer to make a PR to update all the documentation here and make sure all examples use .sqfs as an extension (my preference, as I said) or whatever else people prefer.

[prioux]

Sorry if this is a duplicate. Also, if a convention already exists, we could update the Wikipedia page's side bar and add the extension name there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS

[Dr-Emann]

See also #259

[prioux]

All good. Thanks!