From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of FAT CVF?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:54:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020612065417.GE30507@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1023856708.2934.9.camel@summanulla.clueserver.org>
On Jun 11, 2002 21:38 -0700, Alan wrote:
> What is the status of fat_cvf in 2.4.x? Is the code abandoned?
> Supported? Working? Not working? Pining for the fnords?
>
> I have an old drive I am trying to get data off of and mounting the
> compressed partition via loopback does something strange. The mount
> point shows no files, but "df" shows the correct amount for data used.
> (The compressed DriveSpace 3.x partition does contain data.)
>
> Not urgent. (I can get the data other ways.) Just wanting to know how
> bad it is before I start wading into the code.
There was a patch posted last week to l-k which basically removed CVF
support from the kernel entirely, because it was totally non-functional.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-12 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-12 4:38 Status of FAT CVF? Alan
2002-06-12 6:54 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-06-12 17:32 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-06-13 13:22 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-06-12 8:26 ` Matti Aarnio
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