Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753844AbZAJT0I (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:26:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbZAJTZz (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:25:55 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:2606 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750998AbZAJTZy (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:25:54 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 381 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:25:54 EST Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:19:31 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: Andrew Morton Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Ingo Molnar , David Brown , Phil Oester , Kay Sievers , Phillip Lougher , Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Squashfs pull request for 2.6.29 Message-ID: <20090110191931.GA77974@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Andrew Morton , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Ingo Molnar , David Brown , Phil Oester , Kay Sievers , Phillip Lougher , Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20090108175338.2abbee16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4966B24E.1050700@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20090109023629.GA29520@linuxace.com> <20090109165422.GF24884@logfs.org> <20090109193738.GA9827@linode.davidb.org> <20090109211937.GA14342@logfs.org> <20090110124335.GB30744@elte.hu> <20090110165033.GA23943@logfs.org> <20090110101235.7ca24c44.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090110101235.7ca24c44.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 17 On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:12:35AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > More importantly, the filesystem driver has to be able to read older > filesystem instances. This is a userspace-visible binary interface! > A really complex one. There already have been format changes in squashfs. My experience has been that the developpers consider problems with the support of the older formats bugs that have to be fixed (it happened with a combination of lack of luck and integrated buggy alpha in an old Fedora with the 3.x transition). OG. -- 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/