Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:04:36 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS |
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Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > This is a useful, stable, and _maintained_ filesystem and I'm a bit > surprised that there is this much resistance to it's inclusion.
Although I've only been following things with half an eye, I don't think there's a lot of resistance. It's just that squashfs's proponents are being asked to explain the reasons why the kernel needs this filesystem. That's something into which no effort was made in the initial patch release (there's a lesson there).
Hopefully when the patches are reissued, all of these concerns will be described and addressed within the covering email.
AFAICT the most substantial issue is the 4GB filesytem limit, and it seems that the answer there is "this fs is for embedded systems and 4GB is already insanely large". If that is indeed the argument then please, make that argument and we'll dutifully evaluate it.
We shouldn't have to drag out such important and relevant information with torture-via-email-thread. You guys are the squashfs exports. Tell us stuff. - 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/
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