Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:00:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:00:47 -0400 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:2012 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:00:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:00:49 +0000 From: Jonas Berlin To: Shawn Walker Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: status of supermount? Message-ID: <20011024200049.A20340@niksula.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Organization: Helsinki University of Technology X-WindowManager: fvwm 2.2 / sawfish 0.38 X-Shell: zsh 3.0 / 3.1 X-Editor: emacs 20 X-Browser: Opera 5.0 X-ProgLanguages: Java, Perl, C, asm586, awk, sed, ruby X-Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English X-Homepage: http://outerspace.dyndns.org/html/personal_pages/xkr47/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Does anyone know if supermount has been ported to a more recent > kernel by anyone? The last version of supermount I could find > was for 2.4.0 I mailed the same question to the maintainer over six months ago but didn't get any answer. So I upgraded the patch myself to work with versions 2.4.2, 2.4.4 and 2.4.5. At some point I switched to using 2.4.4-ac9, which I am still using without problems, but I didn't have time back then to port the patch to that version. I have no idea if anyone else has done anything similar. Personally I initially found this patch as a part of the standard kernel provided by mandrake 7.2 (most likely), but I don't know whether they have it in there anymore. I'll check that out. Anyway, if nobody else is already doing it, I could try my best to port it to the newer kernels available, and also to the -ac series, and if I succeed, possibly continue porting it when new versions arrive. I'd be happy to have supermount support back in there myself too. As this is the first part of kernel software I have been porting anyway, I'll happily listen to good advice and pointers to resources that could help me figuring out what interface changes etc there has been in the 2.4 series. I remember there being multiple changes already between 2.4.0 and 2.4.4 that required changing some code, partially because the patch also includes some small changes to some generic fs code (mostly locking issues). - xkr47 - 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/