Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:45:16 -0500 (EST)


On 15 Dec 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
>
> Alexander> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> >> I'm still a few weeks away from getting my platforms working
> >> again, currently I'm wedged at 2.3.27 with some weird perhaps
> >> Sparc-specific issue that is preventing user apps from stating up
> >> after boot.
> >>
> >> Could be the new zone code, who knows, no hard clues... been on
> >> this for 4 days now.
>
> Alexander> With the filesystems/VFS situation looks so (and I'm not
> Alexander> going into IWBNI area, only code that needs fixing): ADFS,
> Alexander> AFFS, HFS, NTFS, QNX4 - blatantly broken.
>
> I think Roman Zippel is working on fixing the AFFS code. It's not
> something I have prioritised terribly high though since the userbase
> is limited .... it should get fixed at some point.

I do. AFFS _directory_ handling is full of crap. All I need is to
resurrect the patch circa September...

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