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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:01:40 +0100 From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk> To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru> CC: squashfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Squashfs-devel] Squashfs 4.0 tools Michael Tokarev wrote: > Phillip Lougher wrote: >> Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>> It is great that squashfs is finally in mainline kernel. But the >>> squashfs tools are tightly bound to the version of the squashfs >>> filesystem. > [] >> I have been working on the 4.0 squashfs tools for the last couple of >> months making them (mksquashfs and unsquashfs) ready for a supported >> release. Now that Linux 2.6.29 has been released (3 hours ago), I >> need to make this release ASAP, which as everything is almost finished, >> should be sometime this week. > > By the way, with this on-disk format change, is there a way to get > 4.0 fs code working with 2.6.27 (long-time-stable) kernel? I tried to compile it on 2.6.27 but it fails due to some API changes and I'm > not that deep into kernel to fix it... > Yes I know. The 4.0 patches only work on 2.6.28 or later AFAIK. When I get time and if there's demand (you're the first person to ask and so there's obviously some demand), I'll backport the patches to earlier kernels. Phillip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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