From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:37:39 -0800 Message-ID: <20090109193738.GA9827@linode.davidb.org> References: <20090108165029.GA10951@infradead.org> <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Phil Oester , Kay Sievers , Phillip Lougher , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Return-path: Received: from linode.davidb.org ([72.14.176.16]:54481 "EHLO mail.davidb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753155AbZAIUME (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:12:04 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:54:22PM +0100, J=F6rn Engel wrote: >On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote: >>=20 >> Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernel= s >> for squashfs. Drivers are merged that don't even _work_ these days, >> so why is there so much concern about merging something which almost >> all distros use which impacts almost nothing if you don't enable it?= ?? > >In general, filesystems and ABI changes are special because stupid >mistakes are eternal. If some device driver has a bug, you can fix it= , >reboot and be done with it. Not so with filesystems. Squashfs is readonly from the kernel. The images are created with userspace tools. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html