On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:18 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:35 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:20 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > Darko Ilic wrote: > > > > > > > I wanted to ask what are the opinions on the subject, and is there any chance > > > > for SquashFS to make it's way into Fedora kernel by FC5? I`ve heard it was > > > > submitted to LKML recently and there was some discussions surrounding that > > > > and that it is a likely candidate for the upstream kernel. > > > > > > If it makes it upstream, then most likely, yes. > > > I'd like to see a quality Fedora LiveCD. At my day job we're evaluating > > livecds for kiosks, recovery, and lab installs. What has struck me in > > recent days is that they're _all_ Debian based. If we want this to > > change, we need to create liveCDs that > > > squashfs and unionfs are both kernel modules that are pretty standard > > fare in the liveCD world but are not part of the mainline kernel. We > > need to include them in Fedora in order to advance our reputation in the > > liveCD arena. > > I spoke with Andrew Morton about unionfs when we were both at Linux > Lunacy V. He stated that nobody had approached him or Linus about > unionfs and they had not heard a peep about it. But, if someone wants > to submit patches and follow up on it, they are more than willing to > look it over and consider it. > > So, as far as unionfs goes, it's up to the developers to approach the > kernel people about inclusion in the upstream sources. So someone needs > to push the unionfs developers. The issue has now been broached with the developers on the unionfs mailing lists in the context of a major bug fix (hint - upgrade to 1.1.11 if you have large file systems!). I intend on pursuing this further... More to come, I assure you... Regards, Mike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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