Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763350AbZDALkt (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:40:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763324AbZDALkg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:40:36 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.251]:39376 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754871AbZDALkf (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:40:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=mEo+Wd7c+i8DBOe7F4jb2/RwQ42k1FOMAR9jw2K3CvQZ05s7ZNpBYNkuCjgAZgV6mM NGOfFDzc3xTmNo1Cuqj3al12lZsXkHuve6WGbJ7/8vrL3xuNWLVJPeS58r5AlE6JO/gw mRDJ/hpIoxZnbPksF/d5kpfftwTU9kIjF8oZY= To: Phillip Lougher Cc: Rob Landley , squashfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Squashfs-devel] Squashfs 4.0 tools References: <20090323180808.2c2ef1a7@nehalam> <10f740e80903290202h1f36b370ga39721536d52a90@mail.gmail.com> <20090330175524.4e8f802e@nehalam> <200903311431.20494.rob@landley.net> <49D2BDE6.7030304@lougher.demon.co.uk> From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:40:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <49D2BDE6.7030304@lougher.demon.co.uk> (Phillip Lougher's message of "Wed\, 01 Apr 2009 02\:05\:42 +0100") Message-ID: <87myb07gbc.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1324 Lines: 32 >>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Lougher writes: Hi, Phillip> I have thought about adding this option a couple of times, Phillip> but it has always been dropped through lack of time. Phillip> Efficiently adding the option isn't as easy as it sounds Phillip> because the "fake" device nodes have to somehow be made Phillip> available to the recursive directory scan routine that scans Phillip> the source directories for files. Adding a list of fake Phillip> device nodes which is scanned on every directory for Phillip> potential inclusion in that directory is easy, but not Phillip> terribly efficient. The normal solution for this is fakeroot, which is also what we're using for mksquashfs in buildroot: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/target/squashfs/squashfsroot.mk Phillip> I'll delay the release of the 4.0 tools and see if I can Phillip> implement this option in the next day or two. I would say rather get 4.0 out of the door as soon as possible and wait with such nice-to-have stuff for later. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- 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/