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Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 19:17:05 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Erik van der Kouwe <vdkouwe@...vu.nl>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Fam Zheng <famcool@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/minix: bugfix, number of indirect block ptrs per
 block depends on block size

On Thu 27-05-10 19:11:41, Erik van der Kouwe wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> >  Out of curiosity: Are you really using MINIX? The code is dead for a
> >long time...
> 
> MINIX is very much alive, see http://www.minix3.org/.
> 
> I work in the team developing MINIX. Being able to exchange data
> between Linux and MINIX is very useful for us and there is no other
> filesystem that the two share. We have been aware of (and annoyed
> by) this problem for a long time, but didn't know the cause (and
> didn't have much time to check). Feiran is a GSoC student working on
> our project and he found the issue when setting up his development
> environment so then we decided to bring out a patch.
  OK, I was more speaking about the Linux MINIX filesystem driver but it's
good to know someone is still using it :) Thanks for education.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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