Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

[David Brown]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:54:22PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote:
> > Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels
> > for squashfs.  Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days,
> > so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost
> > all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it???
>
> In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid
> mistakes are eternal.  If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it,
> reboot and be done with it.  Not so with filesystems.

Squashfs is readonly from the kernel.  The images are created with
userspace tools.

David
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