Re: [PATCH] cramfs updates for 2.4.17

Johan Adolfsson (johan.adolfsson@axis.com)
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:20:06 +0100


> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz=5FK=B3oczko?= writes:
>
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> > [..]
> > > mkcramfs.c
> > [..]
> >
> > Why not move this tool to util-linux ?
>
> I'm actually ready to move the tools to sourceforge (the cramfs tools
> CVS tree is there).
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/
>
> Assuming it's okay with Linus and Marcelo, I'll remove scripts/cramfs
> in the next version of the patch (which should be fine for 2.5 too).
>
> Dan

Why move it?
Having it in the tree makes it nice and easy to use it,
and easy keeping it in sync.
BTW: I have an improvement wish for cramfs:
Add the date of filesystemgeneration to the image header somewhere
and use that to update the time info in the inode, that way you could
get a cheap way of having some valid time stamp for the files without
it taking a lot of space (helps if you have a webserver and the browser
caches stuff)
/Johan

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