linux-kernel - Re: Squashfs 4.0 tools

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Message-ID: <49C86C76.70006@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:15:34 +0300
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, squashfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Squashfs 4.0 tools

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...

Thanks!
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