[lxc-devel] [lxd/master] Document that squashfs images can also be used.

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From f19b9c4f2aa58d9b7953d2300e3b62194c4699fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Vansteenkiste <jan at vstone.eu>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:13:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document that squashfs images can also be used.

Signed-off-by: Jan Vansteenkiste <jan at vstone.eu>
---
 doc/image-handling.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/image-handling.md b/doc/image-handling.md
index 6cc12cc1f..5a6e14111 100644
--- a/doc/image-handling.md
+++ b/doc/image-handling.md
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ rootfs.tar contains a Linux root filesystem at its root.
 In this mode the image identifier is the SHA-256 of the concatenation of
 the metadata and rootfs tarball (in that order).
 
+## Supported compression
+
+The tarball(s) can be compressed using bz2, gz, xz, lzma, tar (uncompressed) or 
+it can also be a squashfs image.
+
 ## Content
 The rootfs directory (or tarball) contains a full file system tree of what will become the container's /.
 


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