Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

[Phillip Lougher]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Josh Boyer <jdub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This is a useful, stable, and _maintained_ filesystem and I'm a bit
> > surprised that there is this much resistance to it's inclusion.
>
>
> Although I've only been following things with half an eye, I don't think
> there's a lot of resistance.  It's just that squashfs's proponents are
> being asked to explain the reasons why the kernel needs this filesystem. 
> That's something into which no effort was made in the initial patch release
> (there's a lesson there).

That is my fault.  When I did the patch I was concentrating on providing 
code not on "selling" the filesystem.  This is probably a cultural 
thing, coming from Britain, I actually thought such "strong arm" sales 
tatics would be tasteless and inappropropriate.

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