| Phillip Lougher | e162193 | 2014-08-08 05:30:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Thanks to everyone who have download squashfs. I appreciate people |
| 4 | using it, and any feedback you have. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | The following have provided useful feedback, which has guided |
| Phillip Lougher | 324aca9 | 2014-08-08 19:50:51 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 7 | some of the extra features in squashfs. This is a randomly ordered |
| 8 | (roughly in chronological order) list, which is updated when |
| 9 | I remember... |
| Phillip Lougher | e162193 | 2014-08-08 05:30:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| 11 | Mark Robson - pointed out early on that initrds didn't work |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Adam Warner - pointed out that greater than 2GB filesystems didn't work. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | John Sutton - raised the problem when archiving the entire filesystem |
| 16 | (/) there was no way to prevent /proc being archived. This prompted |
| 17 | exclude files. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Martin Mueller (LinuxTV) - noticed that the filesystem length in the |
| 20 | superblock doesn't match the output filesystem length. This is due to |
| 21 | padding to a 4K boundary. This prompted the addition of the -nopad option. |
| Phillip Lougher | 8dc5c62 | 2014-08-08 05:35:27 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | He also reported a problem where 32K block filesystems hung when used as initrds. |
| 23 | |
| Phillip Lougher | e9332f5 | 2014-08-08 19:47:20 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | Arkadiusz Patyk (Polish Linux Distribution - PLD) reported a problem where 32K block |
| 25 | filesystems hung when used as a root filesystem mounted as a loopback device. |
| Phillip Lougher | 8dc5c62 | 2014-08-08 05:35:27 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | |
| Phillip Lougher | 2ce29a9 | 2014-08-08 05:44:57 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | Joe Blow emailed me that I'd forgotten to put anything in the README about |
| 28 | mounting the squashfs filesystem. |
| Phillip Lougher | e162193 | 2014-08-08 05:30:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | |
| Phillip Lougher | e9332f5 | 2014-08-08 19:47:20 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | David Fox (Lindows) noticed that the exit codes returned by Mksquashfs were |
| 31 | wrong. He also noticed that a lot of time was spent in the duplicate scan routine. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Cameron Rich complained that Squashfs did not support FIFOs or sockets. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Steve Chadsey and Thomas Weissmuller noticed that files larger than the |
| 36 | available memory could not be compressed by Mksquashfs. |
| Phillip Lougher | 324aca9 | 2014-08-08 19:50:51 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 37 | |
| 38 | "Ptwahyu" and "Hoan" (I have no full names and I don't like giving people's email |
| 39 | addresses), noticed that Mksquashfs 1.3 SEGV'd occasionally. Even though I |
| 40 | had already noticed this bug, it is useful to be informed by other people. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Don Elwell, Murray Jensen and Cameron Rich, have all sent in patches. Thanks, |
| 43 | I have not had time to do anything about them yet... |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Drew Scott Daniels has been a good advocate for Squashfs. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | Erik Andersen has made some nice suggestions, unfortunately, I have |
| 48 | not had time to implement anything. |
