Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-21 Thread Phillip Lougher
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:02:43PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote: Unfortunately the move to fixed little endian filesystem will involve another filesystem layout change. The current filesystem layout still uses packed bitfield structures, and it is impossible to swap th

Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:02:43PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote: > Unfortunately the move to fixed little endian filesystem will involve > another filesystem layout change. The current filesystem layout still > uses packed bitfield structures, and it is impossible to swap these > using the stan

Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-21 Thread Phillip Lougher
Dave Jones wrote: The biggest problem we've seen with it (asides from having to rediff it every time we rebase when there isn't a newer upstream) Yes, this is mainly my fault. There was a gap of 10 months between the 3.2 release in January this year, and the latest in November. With the ra

Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-20 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:32:00PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote: > maximilian attems wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:13:14AM +, Phillip Lougher wrote: > > > >> The next stage after this release is to fix the one remaining blocking > >> issue > >> (filesystem endianness), and then t

Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-07 Thread Phillip Lougher
maximilian attems wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:13:14AM +, Phillip Lougher wrote: The next stage after this release is to fix the one remaining blocking issue (filesystem endianness), and then try to get Squashfs mainlined into the Linux kernel again. that would be very cool! Yes,

Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Tokarev
Phillip Lougher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pleased to announce another release of Squashfs. This is the 22nd > release in just over five years. Thanks Phillip. A tiny bug[fix] I always forgot to send... In fs/squashfs/inode.c, constants TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE are used, but they

Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-05 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:13:14AM +, Phillip Lougher wrote: > I'm pleased to announce another release of Squashfs. This is the 22nd > release in just over five years. Squashfs 3.3 has lots of nice > improvements, > both to the filesystem itself (bigger blocks and sparse files), but > also t

[ANN] Squashfs 3.3 released

2007-11-05 Thread Phillip Lougher
Hi, I'm pleased to announce another release of Squashfs. This is the 22nd release in just over five years. Squashfs 3.3 has lots of nice improvements, both to the filesystem itself (bigger blocks and sparse files), but also to the Squashfs-tools Mksquashfs and Unsquashfs. The next stage after