From: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:11:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496BC02A.2020402@xandros.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496B597A.7020807@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> i get the following error when trying to mount a squashfs partition on
>> an ARM system (edb9302) with linux 2.6.29-rc1:
>>
>> mount /dev/mtdblock6 /mnt/
>> SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems
>> are unsupported
>> mount: mounting /dev/mtdblock6 on /mnt/ failed: Invalid argument
>>
>> the image has been created using mksquashfs v3.4:
>>
>> mksquashfs . /tmp/rootfs.squfs -le -noappend
>>
>
> You have to use the latest version of Mksquashfs in CVS available
> from http://squashfs.org.
>
> git-cvsimport -v -d
> :pserver:anonymous@squashfs.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/squashfs
> squashfs
>
> Phillip
>
Does not look good! I have squashfs images which work OK in 3.3 and 3.4,
but now I try to boot 2.6.29-rc1 and it can not mount my squashfs root
partition!
Does it mean that squashfs4 is not backward-compatible? If so - I can
not use it - all my images are generated on 3.3 .. 3.4...
Woody
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Woody Suwalski, Xandros, Ottawa, Canada, 1-613-842-3498 x414
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 14:08 [BUG?] SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch Matthias Kaehlcke
2009-01-12 14:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-01-12 15:06 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2009-01-12 14:53 ` Phillip Lougher
2009-01-12 22:11 ` Woody Suwalski [this message]
2009-01-13 9:00 ` Phillip Lougher
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