Description of problem: Using mksquashfs -Xstrategy option with argument other than default breaks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): squashfs-tools-4.3-15.fc27 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: # mksquashfs /mnt /tmp/updatedfs.ssq -b 131072 -Xstrategy default,filtered,huffman_only,run_length_encoded,fixed Actual results: Parallel mksquashfs: Using 4 processors Creating 4.0 filesystem on /tmp/updatedfs.ssq, block size 131072. FATAL ERROR:mangle2:: gzip compress failed with error code -5 Expected results: Should work. Version from fedora 25: 4.3-12.fc24 worked as expected. Additional info: Version from Fedora 26: squashfs-tools-4.3-13.fc26.x86_64 does not work either.
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At some point this seems to have been fixed. It works with both squashfs-tools 4.3 and 4.4.