Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

David Brown
2009-01-09T20:12:22Z

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:54:22PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
>On Thu, 8 January 2009 18:36:29 -0800, Phil Oester wrote:
>>
>> Agreed...I'm tired of having to pull along a patch to vanilla kernels
>> 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