From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:06:45 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031002180645.GG7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-hfsplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Roman Zippel Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:37:32AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > The HFS+ driver has a number of improvements and fixes: > - blocks are now preallocated. > - allocation file is now in the page cache too > - better extent caching > - btrees are now able to grow arbitrarily > - allocation block size can now be larger than a page > - actual fs block size is adjusted to avoid alignment problems > - cdrom session/partition support (note that this is a crutch and has > problems) > > This is basically the version I'd liked to get merged into 2.6 (minus lots > of ifdefs and some debug prints). You can find the driver at > http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ What the devil are you doing with get_gendisk() in there? Neither 2.4 nor 2.6 should be messing with it.