This patch is the exact copy of the patch posted by me to comp.os.minix on January 11:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/dcb26c98757137de

That post was complemented on January 14 for 2.4.x kernels:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/947bd2ecefcec8f6/01d74ddca53f638a#01d74ddca53f638a

Since then, no feedback at all has come up to me. So I optimistically adhere to the principle "no news, good news", because I know that the patch works!

I submit this patch to the members of the list and kernel mantainers for their evaluation and comments, and if found appropiate, to include it into the kernel sources.

The modifications I have made to the preexistent code have been four:

1.- The layout of the superblock variables is different in version V3.

2.- Disable writings to "s_state" because it has been droped out from the superblock, and its former address is now used by another parameter.

3.- Change the references to the constant "BLOCK_SIZE" to the variables "s_blocksize" or "b_size", so allowing for multiple size blocks.

4.- Introduce the new structure "minix3_dir_entry" to cope with the padding that is needed to employ 60 characters long names in the new directory entries of 64 bytes.

Both patches follow, attached as text files: "V3_2dot6_patch.txt" and "V3_2dot4_patch.txt"

Signed-off-by: Daniel Aragones <danarag@gmail.com>