On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:18 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:35 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:20 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Darko Ilic wrote:
> >
> > > I wanted to ask what are the opinions on the subject, and is there any
chance
> > > for SquashFS to make it's way into Fedora kernel by FC5? I`ve heard it
was
> > > submitted to LKML recently and there was some discussions surrounding that
> > > and that it is a likely candidate for the upstream kernel.
> >
> > If it makes it upstream, then most likely, yes.
> I'd like to see a quality Fedora LiveCD. At my day job we're evaluating
> livecds for kiosks, recovery, and lab installs. What has struck me in
> recent days is that they're _all_ Debian based. If we want this to
> change, we need to create liveCDs that
> squashfs and unionfs are both kernel modules that are pretty standard
> fare in the liveCD world but are not part of the mainline kernel. We
> need to include them in Fedora in order to advance our reputation in the
> liveCD arena.
I spoke with Andrew Morton about unionfs when we were both at Linux
Lunacy V. He stated that nobody had approached him or Linus about
unionfs and they had not heard a peep about it. But, if someone wants
to submit patches and follow up on it, they are more than willing to
look it over and consider it.
So, as far as unionfs goes, it's up to the developers to approach the
kernel people about inclusion in the upstream sources. So someone needs
to push the unionfs developers.
The issue has now been broached with the developers on the unionfs
mailing lists in the context of a major bug fix (hint - upgrade to
1.1.11 if you have large file systems!). I intend on pursuing this
further...
More to come, I assure you...
Regards,
Mike
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