--- squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
+++ squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c
@@ -5304,7 +5304,7 @@
 			ERROR("\t\t\tCompressors available:\n");
 			display_compressors("\t\t\t", COMP_DEFAULT);
 			ERROR("-b <block_size>\t\tset data block to "
-				"<block_size>.  Default 128 Kbytes\n");
+				"<block_size>.  Default 64 Kbytes\n");
 			ERROR("\t\t\tOptionally a suffix of K or M can be"
 				" given to specify\n\t\t\tKbytes or Mbytes"
 				" respectively\n");
--- squashfs-tools/squashfs_fs.h
+++ squashfs-tools/squashfs_fs.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 #define SQUASHFS_METADATA_LOG		13
 
 /* default size of data blocks */
-#define SQUASHFS_FILE_SIZE		131072
+#define SQUASHFS_FILE_SIZE		65536
 
 #define SQUASHFS_FILE_MAX_SIZE		1048576
 #define SQUASHFS_FILE_MAX_LOG		20