From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263432AbTJBSGu (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:06:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263429AbTJBSGu (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:06:50 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:61316 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263426AbTJBSGt (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:06:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:06:45 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-hfsplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver Message-ID: <20031002180645.GG7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:37:32AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > The HFS+ driver has a number of improvements and fixes: > - blocks are now preallocated. > - allocation file is now in the page cache too > - better extent caching > - btrees are now able to grow arbitrarily > - allocation block size can now be larger than a page > - actual fs block size is adjusted to avoid alignment problems > - cdrom session/partition support (note that this is a crutch and has > problems) > > This is basically the version I'd liked to get merged into 2.6 (minus lots > of ifdefs and some debug prints). You can find the driver at > http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ What the devil are you doing with get_gendisk() in there? Neither 2.4 nor 2.6 should be messing with it.