Re: Squashfs 4.0 tools

[Michael Tokarev]

Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > It is great that squashfs is finally in mainline kernel. But the
> > squashfs tools are tightly bound to the version of the squashfs 
> > filesystem.
[]
> I have been working on the 4.0 squashfs tools for the last couple of
> months making them (mksquashfs and unsquashfs) ready for a supported
> release.  Now that Linux 2.6.29 has been released (3 hours ago), I
> need to make this release ASAP, which as everything is almost finished,
> should be sometime this week.

By the way, with this on-disk format change, is there a way to get
4.0 fs code working with 2.6.27 (long-time-stable) kernel?  I tried
to compile it on 2.6.27 but it fails due to some API changes and I'm
not that deep into kernel to fix it...

Thanks!
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