linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <20090109193738.GA9827@linode.davidb.org>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:37:39 -0800
From:	David Brown <lkml@...idb.org>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
Cc:	Phil Oester <kernel@...uxace.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:54:22PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
>On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote:
>> 
>> Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels
>> for squashfs.  Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days,
>> so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost
>> all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it???
>
>In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid
>mistakes are eternal.  If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it,
>reboot and be done with it.  Not so with filesystems.

Squashfs is readonly from the kernel.  The images are created with
userspace tools.

David
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