From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:43:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:43:10 -0400 Received: from [194.213.32.142] ([194.213.32.142]:13828 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:42:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20010611225944.B959@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:59:44 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Roberto Di Cosmo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: demolinux@demolinux.org, dicosmo@pps.jussieu.fr Subject: Re: [isocompr PATCH]: announcing stable port to kernel 2.2.18 In-Reply-To: <200106110929.f5B9T5Q27584@foobar.pps.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <200106110929.f5B9T5Q27584@foobar.pps.jussieu.fr>; from Roberto Di Cosmo on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:29:05AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Dear mailing list members, > you will find at http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dicosmo/FreeSoftware > the first public release of my updates (for 2.2.18) of an old patch > (due to Eric Youngdale and Adam J. Richter) to allow the use > of transparent compression of files on iso9660 images. > > This means you can pack over 1Gb of data on a usual CD. Also, since > reading off the CD is actually slower than decompressing data, an overall > speed improvement comes as a bonus. Good. > The current version of the patch for 2.2.18 is very stable (we use it > for DemoLinux [see www.demolinux.org] heavily), and I wonder if it could > not be a good idea to see if this code can be folded into the official releases > sometime in the future (I have been looking at 2.4.x code, but the new page > cache means some changes might be needed: I will try to post a first version > for 2.4.x soon). I think that 2.5.0 should be your target... It is definitely new feature, and both 2.4.X and 2.2.X are in feature freeze. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org