Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:57:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:57:24 -0500 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:4100 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:57:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20010222215146.D14395@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:51:46 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: zhaoway , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Newbie ask for help: cramfs port to isofs In-Reply-To: <877l2lyk3j.fsf@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <877l2lyk3j.fsf@debian.org>; from zhaoway on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:03:12PM +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > I've nearly no prior experience with kernel hacking (nor C if you have > to ask, haha), sorry in advance for the newbiesh looking. ;-) > > See attach for a rough try to port cramfs to isofs which gave me lots > of oops and reboots and fscks this week. Please if you have some spare > time to give it a look with your experienced eyes to help me out of > this helpless state. Thanks alot! > > I plan to automatically de-compressing ``*.cramed'' files made with > cramit.c (which is a simplified version of mkcramfs.c also attached > below) from within isofs.o. This indeed isn't a very clean idea I > agree. If you have better design, please let me know. Nice toy: I believe that it should even _speed up_ operations. Surely if you have k6/400 with 4x cdrom like me ;-). > My problem is that when I after mount ``$ file somefile.not.cram.ed'' > the kernel hangs. And my de-compression code surely has some thing strace file somefile.not.cram.ed, and looks what what goes bad. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/