Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764739AbXKTXvU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:51:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758245AbXKTXvG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:51:06 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43326 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757679AbXKTXvF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:51:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:50:48 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Phillip Lougher Cc: maximilian attems , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released Message-ID: <20071120235048.GA15764@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Phillip Lougher , maximilian attems , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <472EFACA.1090308@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20071105115624.GJ14432@baikonur.stro.at> <4731E880.6010303@lougher.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4731E880.6010303@lougher.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1797 Lines: 43 On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:32:00PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > maximilian attems wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:13:14AM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > > > >> The next stage after this release is to fix the one remaining blocking issue > >> (filesystem endianness), and then try to get Squashfs mainlined into the > >> Linux kernel again. > >> > > > > that would be very cool! > > Yes, it would be cool :) Five years is a long time to maintain > something out of tree, especially recently when there's been > so many minor changes to the VFS interface between kernel releases. > > > with my hat as debian kernel maintainer i'd be very relieved to see it > > mainlined. i don't know of any major distro that doesn't ship it. > > > > I don't know of any major distro that doesn't ship Squashfs either > (except arguably Slackware). Putting my other hat on (one of the > Ubuntu kernel maintainers) I don't think Squashfs has caused > distros that many problems because it is an easy patch to apply > (it doesn't touch that many kernel files), but it is always good > to minimise the differences from the stock kernel.org kernel. The biggest problem we've seen with it (asides from having to rediff it every time we rebase when there isn't a newer upstream) is complaints along the lines of "my Fedora 7 kernel can't unpack squashfs images from Fedora 5" (s/Fedora 5/other random older distros/ ) If the format is now stable however, it would be great to get it upstream. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/