Re: minixfs bitmaps and associated lossage

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> 	Warning: text below is a mild example of software coproarchaeology,
> so if you are easily squicked by tangled mess of bugs and dumb lossage,
> well... you've been warned.

:-)

> 	So...  What the hell can we do?  Layouts (4) and (5) are clearly
> broken and _never_ worked - there's nothing that would manage to create
> such filesystem.  So these are obvious candidates for switching - either
> to (2) (correct) or to (3) (broken, but at least match util-linux fsck.minix
> and mkfs.minix on such platforms).  The question being, what do we do with
> (3) (big-endian metadata, little-endian bitmaps) and what do we do with
> Linux fsck.minix?  Aside of repeating the mantra, that is ("All Software
> Sucks, All Hardware Sucks")...

Remove minix write support? Only writers care about bitmap layout,
right?
							Pavel
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