From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/minix: bugfix, number of indirect block ptrs per block depends on block size Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 19:17:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20100527171705.GC3576@quack.suse.cz> References: <4BFCF1EB.20709@cs.vu.nl> <20100526215442.GB3316@quack.suse.cz> <4BFEA7CD.6020703@cs.vu.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Kara , Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fam Zheng To: Erik van der Kouwe Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BFEA7CD.6020703@cs.vu.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu 27-05-10 19:11:41, Erik van der Kouwe wrote: > Dear all, > > > Out of curiosity: Are you really using MINIX? The code is dead for a > >long time... > > MINIX is very much alive, see http://www.minix3.org/. > > I work in the team developing MINIX. Being able to exchange data > between Linux and MINIX is very useful for us and there is no other > filesystem that the two share. We have been aware of (and annoyed > by) this problem for a long time, but didn't know the cause (and > didn't have much time to check). Feiran is a GSoC student working on > our project and he found the issue when setting up his development > environment so then we decided to bring out a patch. OK, I was more speaking about the Linux MINIX filesystem driver but it's good to know someone is still using it :) Thanks for education. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR