On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 04:44:40AM -0500, Herman Strom wrote:
> Hi! Matti,
>
> Thanks for your speedy reply. Would you please tell me if I would be
> able to patch my kernel 2.2.12 (since as I can see this thing is for
> kernel 2.1.131) and how would I exactly do it?
As to "how" you get answer by reading "README" file at
the /usr/src/linux/ directory.
I haven't tried to apply that patch against latter 2.2.*
kernels, but as things tend to change a bit every so often,
I doubt it will apply cleanly. Likely it does need severe
re-engineering effort.
I might return to the topic once Large File Support has been
properly integrated into Linux core, but before that I don't
have spare cycles.
If you want to have a major project to your hands, you are
welcome to try it yourself. It took me about two weeks both
times to write the thing from scratch (first time about two
years ago, then again just one year ago).
When you crash (not "if"!), you just reboot, fsck, and try
again. Just like DOS programming :)
Often you do not experience any real filesystem corruption
either, but it is better to learn the magic-SysRq keys to
force syncs, and unmounts before reboots.
Splitting IPv4 into multiple bits is something that my current
patch version needs, but I didn't do it back then...
> Thanks.
> Bye,
> Herm
> ---------------------------------------
> Herman Strom - Academic Computing Dept.
> <http://hermstrom.tripod.com/>
> email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
/Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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