Re: New version of e2compress patch (0.4.42) for LINUX 2.4.16.

William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com)
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:59:06 -0500 (EST)


Good day, Denis,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Denis RICHARD wrote:

> A new version of the e2compress patch (0.4.42) for kernel 2.4.16 is available.
>
> Changes from 0.4.41 to 0.4.42 :
> ===============================
> - Delete the i_blocks field decrementation (Thanks to Peter Wächtler).
> - Clear dirty bit of buffers not in compressed area, after compression.
> - Unlock pages before sync of inode, after compression.
> - Change parameters (OSYNC_METADATA|OSYNC_DATA) of generic_osync_inode()
> calls to write data inode.
> - Ext2_readpage() returns an error code.
> - Allocation of working area even when readonly mount.
> - Clear dirty bit of buffers after uncompress in ext2_readpage.
> - Unlock page after free buffers in error case in ext2_readpage.
>
> If someone is interested by this version of the patch,
> Let me know, I will mail it.
>
> Feel free to contat me if you have some questions.
>
> Have fun.

Would you be willing to place it on a web or ftp server and post
the URL here?
Cheers,
- Bill

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