Re: [PATCH] Minix V3 support

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:07:44 +0100 (MET)
<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:

> This morning I needed to read a Minix V3 filesystem,
> but unfortunately my 2.6.19 did not support that,
> and neither did the downloaded 2.6.20rc4.
> 
> Fortunately, google told me that Daniel Aragones had
> already done the work, patch found at
> http://www.terra.es/personal2/danarag/
> 
> Unfortunaly, looking at the patch was painful to my eyes,
> so I polished it a bit before applying. The resulting
> kernel boots, and reads the filesystem it needed to read.
> 
> (So, I do not guarantee the patch below, it is almost untested,
> writing is entirely untested, but it certainly contains fewer
> bugs than the patch found at the url above.
> The patch is relative to 2.6.20rc4.)

Looks relatively harmless ;)

Daniel, it'd be good if you could review and test these changes please.

Also, a signed-off-by from yourself and from Andries, please...