From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:50:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20071120235048.GA15764@redhat.com> References: <472EFACA.1090308@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20071105115624.GJ14432@baikonur.stro.at> <4731E880.6010303@lougher.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: maximilian attems , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Phillip Lougher Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43326 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757679AbXKTXvF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:51:05 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4731E880.6010303@lougher.demon.co.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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