Status of FAT CVF?

Status of FAT CVF?

[Alan]

What is the status of fat_cvf in 2.4.x?  Is the code abandoned?
Supported? Working? Not working? Pining for the fnords?

I have an old drive I am trying to get data off of and mounting the
compressed partition via loopback does something strange.  The mount
point shows no files, but "df" shows the correct amount for data used. 
(The compressed DriveSpace 3.x partition does contain data.)

Not urgent.  (I can get the data other ways.)  Just wanting to know how
bad it is before I start wading into the code.

Thanks!

Re: Status of FAT CVF?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jun 11, 2002  21:38 -0700, Alan wrote:
> What is the status of fat_cvf in 2.4.x?  Is the code abandoned?
> Supported? Working? Not working? Pining for the fnords?
> 
> I have an old drive I am trying to get data off of and mounting the
> compressed partition via loopback does something strange.  The mount
> point shows no files, but "df" shows the correct amount for data used. 
> (The compressed DriveSpace 3.x partition does contain data.)
> 
> Not urgent.  (I can get the data other ways.)  Just wanting to know how
> bad it is before I start wading into the code.

There was a patch posted last week to l-k which basically removed CVF
support from the kernel entirely, because it was totally non-functional.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

Re: Status of FAT CVF?

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> writes:

> On Jun 11, 2002  21:38 -0700, Alan wrote:
> > What is the status of fat_cvf in 2.4.x?  Is the code abandoned?
> > Supported? Working? Not working? Pining for the fnords?
> > 
> > I have an old drive I am trying to get data off of and mounting the
> > compressed partition via loopback does something strange.  The mount
> > point shows no files, but "df" shows the correct amount for data used. 
> > (The compressed DriveSpace 3.x partition does contain data.)
> > 
> > Not urgent.  (I can get the data other ways.)  Just wanting to know how
> > bad it is before I start wading into the code.
> 
> There was a patch posted last week to l-k which basically removed CVF
> support from the kernel entirely, because it was totally non-functional.

I got direct email about it. Then he said, he ports and uses dmsdos on
2.4. And I asked if he can port dmsdos to 2.5 or not. So, currently
that patch is pending.

Witek, can you post a patch of dmsdos for 2.4?
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

Re: Status of FAT CVF?

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

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From: "Witek Krecicki" <adasi@kernel.pl>
To: "OGAWA Hirofumi" <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Status of FAT CVF?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:37:37 +0200
Message-ID: <034c01c21240$3d0e7600$0201a8c0@witek>

----- Original Message -----
From: "OGAWA Hirofumi" <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Alan" <alan@clueserver.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "Witek
Krecicki" <adasi@kernel.pl>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Status of FAT CVF?


> Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> writes:
>
> > On Jun 11, 2002  21:38 -0700, Alan wrote:
> > > What is the status of fat_cvf in 2.4.x?  Is the code abandoned?
> > > Supported? Working? Not working? Pining for the fnords?
> > >
> > > I have an old drive I am trying to get data off of and mounting the
> > > compressed partition via loopback does something strange.  The mount
> > > point shows no files, but "df" shows the correct amount for data used.
> > > (The compressed DriveSpace 3.x partition does contain data.)
> > >
> > > Not urgent.  (I can get the data other ways.)  Just wanting to know
how
> > > bad it is before I start wading into the code.
> >
> > There was a patch posted last week to l-k which basically removed CVF
> > support from the kernel entirely, because it was totally non-functional.
>
> I got direct email about it. Then he said, he ports and uses dmsdos on
> 2.4. And I asked if he can port dmsdos to 2.5 or not. So, currently
> that patch is pending.
>
> Witek, can you post a patch of dmsdos for 2.4?
Now I'm much-too-busy for it, but try when have some time... hope it'll work
WK

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-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

Re: Status of FAT CVF?

[Matti Aarnio]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:38:27PM -0700, Alan wrote:
> What is the status of fat_cvf in 2.4.x?  Is the code abandoned?
> Supported? Working? Not working? Pining for the fnords?

  Over about past week there has been some talk with that topic.
  The conclusion appeared to be "kernel driver is abandoned, future
  support belongs into  mtools".

  Thread Subject was something like  "fat/msdos/...".
  Go see the archives.

  (And having word "fat" in message subject does cause several
   sites to consider even this message to be spam...)

> Thanks!

/Matti Aarnio