Hi! > Warning: text below is a mild example of software coproarchaeology, > so if you are easily squicked by tangled mess of bugs and dumb lossage, > well... you've been warned. :-) > So... What the hell can we do? Layouts (4) and (5) are clearly > broken and _never_ worked - there's nothing that would manage to create > such filesystem. So these are obvious candidates for switching - either > to (2) (correct) or to (3) (broken, but at least match util-linux fsck.minix > and mkfs.minix on such platforms). The question being, what do we do with > (3) (big-endian metadata, little-endian bitmaps) and what do we do with > Linux fsck.minix? Aside of repeating the mantra, that is ("All Software > Sucks, All Hardware Sucks")... Remove minix write support? Only writers care about bitmap layout, right? Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html