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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:11:54 -0500
From:	Woody Suwalski <woodys@...dros.com>
To:	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>
cc:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch

Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> i get the following error when trying to mount a squashfs partition on
>> an ARM system (edb9302) with linux 2.6.29-rc1:
>>
>> mount /dev/mtdblock6 /mnt/
>> SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems
>> are unsupported
>> mount: mounting /dev/mtdblock6 on /mnt/ failed: Invalid argument
>>
>> the image has been created using mksquashfs v3.4:
>>
>> mksquashfs . /tmp/rootfs.squfs -le -noappend
>>
>
> You have to use the latest version of Mksquashfs in CVS available
> from http://squashfs.org.
>
> git-cvsimport -v -d 
> :pserver:anonymous@...ashfs.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/squashfs 
> squashfs
>
> Phillip
>
Does not look good! I have squashfs images which work OK in 3.3 and 3.4, 
but now I try to boot 2.6.29-rc1 and it can not mount my squashfs root 
partition!
Does it mean that squashfs4 is not backward-compatible? If so - I can 
not use it - all my images are generated on 3.3 .. 3.4...

Woody

-- 
Woody Suwalski, Xandros, Ottawa, Canada, 1-613-842-3498 x414

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