Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29

Harvey Harrison
2009-01-09T02:30:48Z

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:50:29 -0500 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:48:51PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> > > Please consider pulling my linux-next branch
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus.git
> > >
> > > The patches have been posted to LKML and linux-fsdevel over the last
> > > couple of months and have been reviewed and changed as requested.
> > > Diffstat below.
> > >
> > > Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem. It compresses metadata
> > > and data, and uses up to 1 MiB block sizes for greater compression.
> >
> > That seems pretty fast for something only posted this week and not
> > even in -next.
>
> I discussed this with Phillip a bit, and it looks like we'll go for a
> 2.6.21 merge. This gives a couple of months for testing and review in
> linux-next.

akpm time machine? I'll assume that means squashfs is headed for a
2.6.30 merge? Or .29?

Harvey