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 # DwarFS
 
-A high compression read-only file system
+A fast high compression read-only file system
 
 ## Overview
 
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ compressed file systems don't do a very good job at making use of
 this redundancy. See [here](#comparison) for a comparison with other
 compressed file systems.
 
+DwarFS also doesn't compromise on speed and for my use cases I've
+found it to be on par with SquashFS.
+
 Distinct features of DwarFS are:
 
 * Clustering of files by similarity using a similarity hash function.