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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:01:40 +0100
From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
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To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Squashfs-devel] Squashfs 4.0 tools
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Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Phillip Lougher wrote:
>> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> It is great that squashfs is finally in mainline kernel. But the
>>> squashfs tools are tightly bound to the version of the squashfs 
>>> filesystem.
> []
>> I have been working on the 4.0 squashfs tools for the last couple of
>> months making them (mksquashfs and unsquashfs) ready for a supported
>> release.  Now that Linux 2.6.29 has been released (3 hours ago), I
>> need to make this release ASAP, which as everything is almost finished,
>> should be sometime this week.
> 
> By the way, with this on-disk format change, is there a way to get
> 4.0 fs code working with 2.6.27 (long-time-stable) kernel?  
I tried  to compile it on 2.6.27 but it fails due to some API changes and I'm
> not that deep into kernel to fix it...
> 

Yes I know.  The 4.0 patches only work on 2.6.28 or later AFAIK.

When I get time and if there's demand (you're the first person to ask
and so there's obviously some demand), I'll backport the patches
to earlier kernels.

Phillip
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