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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 -- 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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