Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:01:54 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: status of supermount? |
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jonas Berlin wrote:
> > Does anyone know if supermount has been ported to a more recent > > kernel by anyone? The last version of supermount I could find > > was for 2.4.0 > > I mailed the same question to the maintainer over six months ago but didn't > get any answer. So I upgraded the patch myself to work with versions 2.4.2, > 2.4.4 and 2.4.5. At some point I switched to using 2.4.4-ac9, which I am > still using without problems, but I didn't have time back then to port the > patch to that version. > > I have no idea if anyone else has done anything similar. Personally I > initially found this patch as a part of the standard kernel provided by > mandrake 7.2 (most likely), but I don't know whether they have it in there > anymore. I'll check that out. Anyway, if nobody else is already doing it, I > could try my best to port it to the newer kernels available, and also to the > -ac series, and if I succeed, possibly continue porting it when new versions > arrive. I'd be happy to have supermount support back in there myself too. > > As this is the first part of kernel software I have been porting anyway, > I'll happily listen to good advice and pointers to resources that could help > me figuring out what interface changes etc there has been in the 2.4 series. > I remember there being multiple changes already between 2.4.0 and 2.4.4 that > required changing some code, partially because the patch also includes some > small changes to some generic fs code (mostly locking issues).
Last I heard, Juan J. Quintela <quintela@fi.udc.es> was porting supermount to 2.4.x.
>From what I heard from him its not an easy job: the current 2.4.x available patches are full of problems.
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