diff --git a/meta-ohos-core/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-all.inc b/meta-ohos-core/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-all.inc
index 39b73fc1a59fab7ce9436b68096030eec83b436b..6c59f53c1c20a60b06234f238805a4a4572f4435 100644
--- a/meta-ohos-core/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-all.inc
+++ b/meta-ohos-core/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-all.inc
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/linux:"
 SRC_URI += "file://fix-gcc-plugins-with-gcc-11.patch"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://misc.cfg"
+SRC_URI += "file://squashfs.cfg"
 SRC_URI += "file://hardening_allocator.cfg"
 SRC_URI += "file://hardening_allocator_perf.cfg"
 SRC_URI += "file://hardening_disable_misc.cfg"
diff --git a/meta-ohos-core/recipes-kernel/linux/linux/squashfs.cfg b/meta-ohos-core/recipes-kernel/linux/linux/squashfs.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f067e92710d615e13741f1e6c6d6d3b856ea0a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-ohos-core/recipes-kernel/linux/linux/squashfs.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Huawei Inc.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# Root filesystem is by default squashfs
+CONFIG_SQUASHFS=y