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----- Original Message -----
From: "OGAWA Hirofumi" <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Alan" <alan@clueserver.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "Witek
Krecicki" <adasi@kernel.pl>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Status of FAT CVF?
> Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> writes:
>
> > On Jun 11, 2002 21:38 -0700, Alan wrote:
> > > What is the status of fat_cvf in 2.4.x? Is the code abandoned?
> > > Supported? Working? Not working? Pining for the fnords?
> > >
> > > I have an old drive I am trying to get data off of and mounting the
> > > compressed partition via loopback does something strange. The mount
> > > point shows no files, but "df" shows the correct amount for data used.
> > > (The compressed DriveSpace 3.x partition does contain data.)
> > >
> > > Not urgent. (I can get the data other ways.) Just wanting to know
how
> > > bad it is before I start wading into the code.
> >
> > There was a patch posted last week to l-k which basically removed CVF
> > support from the kernel entirely, because it was totally non-functional.
>
> I got direct email about it. Then he said, he ports and uses dmsdos on
> 2.4. And I asked if he can port dmsdos to 2.5 or not. So, currently
> that patch is pending.
>
> Witek, can you post a patch of dmsdos for 2.4?
Now I'm much-too-busy for it, but try when have some time... hope it'll work
WK
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