On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:32:00PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > maximilian attems wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:13:14AM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > > > >> The next stage after this release is to fix the one remaining blocking issue > >> (filesystem endianness), and then try to get Squashfs mainlined into the > >> Linux kernel again. > >> > > > > that would be very cool! > > Yes, it would be cool :) Five years is a long time to maintain > something out of tree, especially recently when there's been > so many minor changes to the VFS interface between kernel releases. > > > with my hat as debian kernel maintainer i'd be very relieved to see it > > mainlined. i don't know of any major distro that doesn't ship it. > > > > I don't know of any major distro that doesn't ship Squashfs either > (except arguably Slackware). Putting my other hat on (one of the > Ubuntu kernel maintainers) I don't think Squashfs has caused > distros that many problems because it is an easy patch to apply > (it doesn't touch that many kernel files), but it is always good > to minimise the differences from the stock kernel.org kernel. The biggest problem we've seen with it (asides from having to rediff it every time we rebase when there isn't a newer upstream) is complaints along the lines of "my Fedora 7 kernel can't unpack squashfs images from Fedora 5" (s/Fedora 5/other random older distros/ ) If the format is now stable however, it would be great to get it upstream. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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
