| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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| Thanks to everyone who have download squashfs. I appreciate people |
| using it, and any feedback you have. |
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| The following have provided useful feedback, which has guided |
| some of the extra features in squashfs. This is a randomly ordered |
| (roughly in chronological order) list, which is updated when |
| I remember... |
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| Mark Robson - pointed out early on that initrds didn't work |
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| Adam Warner - pointed out that greater than 2GB filesystems didn't work. |
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| John Sutton - raised the problem when archiving the entire filesystem |
| (/) there was no way to prevent /proc being archived. This prompted |
| exclude files. |
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| Martin Mueller (LinuxTV) - noticed that the filesystem length in the |
| superblock doesn't match the output filesystem length. This is due to |
| padding to a 4K boundary. This prompted the addition of the -nopad option. |
| He also reported a problem where 32K block filesystems hung when used as initrds. |
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| Arkadiusz Patyk (Polish Linux Distribution - PLD) reported a problem where 32K block |
| filesystems hung when used as a root filesystem mounted as a loopback device. |
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| Joe Blow emailed me that I'd forgotten to put anything in the README about |
| mounting the squashfs filesystem. |
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| David Fox (Lindows) noticed that the exit codes returned by Mksquashfs were |
| wrong. He also noticed that a lot of time was spent in the duplicate scan routine. |
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| Cameron Rich complained that Squashfs did not support FIFOs or sockets. |
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| Steve Chadsey and Thomas Weissmuller noticed that files larger than the |
| available memory could not be compressed by Mksquashfs. |
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| "Ptwahyu" and "Hoan" (I have no full names and I don't like giving people's email |
| addresses), noticed that Mksquashfs 1.3 SEGV'd occasionally. Even though I |
| had already noticed this bug, it is useful to be informed by other people. |
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| Don Elwell, Murray Jensen and Cameron Rich, have all sent in patches. Thanks, |
| I have not had time to do anything about them yet... |
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| Drew Scott Daniels has been a good advocate for Squashfs. |
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| Erik Andersen has made some nice suggestions, unfortunately, I have |
| not had time to implement anything. |
