Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-11 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jedi/Sector One wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > IMHO, even if an fs was bug-free in 2.2.x, lack of testing under the new > > 2.3.x VFS implies an experimental and possibly non-working nature. > > The QNXFS is not bug-free in 2.2.x . It is useable to share some files

Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-11 Thread Jedi/Sector One
Jeff Garzik wrote: > IMHO, even if an fs was bug-free in 2.2.x, lack of testing under the new > 2.3.x VFS implies an experimental and possibly non-working nature. The QNXFS is not bug-free in 2.2.x . It is useable to share some files between Linux and QNX, and when QNX is screwed up, this is re

Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Guest section DW wrote: > > Somebody had touched qnx/inode.c in 2.3.19 > > maybe they will show up and tell what is going on? > > That was me. > I noticed that if one had qnx4 compiled into the kernel > and did a mount without explicit -t option of some fs > that came late

Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-10 Thread Guest section DW
> Somebody had touched qnx/inode.c in 2.3.19 > maybe they will show up and tell what is going on? That was me. I noticed that if one had qnx4 compiled into the kernel and did a mount without explicit -t option of some fs that came later in the list then the system would crash. In other words, al

Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: > (re-directed to linux-fsdevel) > > Guest section DW wrote: > > > > > Both HFS and QNXFS has been in the kernel for quite some time, > > > yet both are flagged Experimental. > > > > Just as well. At least qnx4 still contains bad bugs. > > I have no in

Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Weinehall wrote: > Well, if we're to base the (EXPERIMENTAL) based on that it hasn't been > rewritten for v2.3.x, several other filesystems should be marked... There's your answer. IMHO, even if an fs was bug-free in 2.2.x, lack of testing under the new 2.3.x VFS implies an experimental an

Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-10 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: > (re-directed to linux-fsdevel) > > Guest section DW wrote: > > > > > Both HFS and QNXFS has been in the kernel for quite some time, > > > yet both are flagged Experimental. > > > > Just as well. At least qnx4 still contains bad bugs. > > I have no info

Re: HFS, QNXFS

1999-10-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
(re-directed to linux-fsdevel) Guest section DW wrote: > > > Both HFS and QNXFS has been in the kernel for quite some time, > > yet both are flagged Experimental. > > Just as well. At least qnx4 still contains bad bugs. > I have no information on hfs. Someone (A. Viro?) posted recently to linu