Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262145AbVCUXi1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:38:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262181AbVCUXh4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:37:56 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:60302 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262145AbVCUWtu (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:49:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:49:37 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Phillip Lougher Cc: Paulo Marques , Andrew Morton , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS Message-ID: <20050321224937.GQ1390@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050314170653.1ed105eb.akpm@osdl.org> <20050314190140.5496221b.akpm@osdl.org> <423727BD.7080200@grupopie.com> <20050321101441.GA23456@elf.ucw.cz> <423EEEC2.9060102@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20050321190044.GD1390@elf.ucw.cz> <423F0C67.6000006@lougher.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <423F0C67.6000006@lougher.demon.co.uk> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1145 Lines: 26 Hi! > >Perhaps squashfs is good enough improvement over cramfs... But I'd > >like those 4Gb limits to go away. > > So would I. But it is a totally groundless reason to refuse kernel > submission because of that, Squashfs users are quite happily using it > with such a "terrible" limitation. I'm asking for Squashfs to be put in > the kernel _now_ because users are asking me to do it _now_. If it Putting it into kernel because users want it is... not a good reason. You should put it there if it is right thing to do. I believe you should address those endianness issues and drop V1 support. If breaking 4GB limit does not involve on-disk format change, it may be okay to merge. After code is merged, doing format changes will be hard... Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/