Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:49:36 +0100 (CET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
To: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
cc: phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> i get the following error when trying to mount a squashfs partition on
> an ARM system (edb9302) with linux 2.6.29-rc1:
> 
> mount /dev/mtdblock6 /mnt/
> SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems
> are unsupported
> mount: mounting /dev/mtdblock6 on /mnt/ failed: Invalid argument
> 
> the image has been created using mksquashfs v3.4:
> 
> mksquashfs . /tmp/rootfs.squfs -le -noappend

You have to use a version of mksquashfs that creates file systems with the v4.0
layout, i.e. from the squashfs-tools on SourceForge.net:

    git-cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@squashfs.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/squashfs squashfs

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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