Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:59:03 +0000 | From | Phillip Lougher <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > 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).
That is my fault. When I did the patch I was concentrating on providing code not on "selling" the filesystem. This is probably a cultural thing, coming from Britain, I actually thought such "strong arm" sales tatics would be tasteless and inappropropriate.
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