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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Thanks to everyone who have downloaded Squashfs. I appreciate people
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using it, and any feedback you have.
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The following have provided useful feedback, which has guided
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some of the extra features in squashfs. This is a randomly ordered
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(roughly in chronological order) list, which is updated when
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I remember...
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.3
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Thanks to Bruno Wolff III and Andy Lutomirski for useful feedback
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during the long development process of Squashfs 4.3.
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.2
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Thanks to Lasse Collin (http://tukaani.org/xz/) for mainlining XZ
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decompression support.
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.1
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Thanks to Chan Jeong <chan.jeong@lge.com> and LG for the patches to support LZO
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compression.
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.0
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Thanks to Tim Bird and CELF (Consumer Electronics Linux Forum) for helping
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fund mainstreaming of Squashfs into the 2.6.29 kernel and the
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changes to the Squashfs tools to support the new 4.0 file system layout.
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.3
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Peter Korsgaard and others sent patches updating Squashfs to changes in the
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VFS interface for 2.6.22/2.6.23/2.6.24-rc1. Peter also sent some small patches
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for the Squashfs kernel code.
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Vito Di Leo sent a patch extending Mksquashfs to support regex filters.
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While his patched worked, it unfortunately made it easy to make Mksquashfs
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perform unpredictably with poorly choosen regex expressions. It, however,
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encouraged myself to add support for wildcard pattern matching and regex
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filters in a different way.
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.2-r2
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Junjiro Okajima discovered a couple of SMP issues, thanks.
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Junjiro Okajima and Tomas Matejicek have produced some good LZMA patches
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for Squashfs.
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.2
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Peter Korsgaard sent a patch updating Squashfs to changes in the VFS interface
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in Linux 2.6.20.
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Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.1
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Kenneth Duda and Ed Swierk of Arastra Inc. identified numerous bugs with
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Squashfs, and provided patches which were the basis for some of the
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fixes. In particular they identified the fragment rounding bug, the
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NFS bug, the initrd bug, and helped identify the 4K stack overflow bug.
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Scott James Remnant (Ubuntu) also identified the fragment rounding bug,
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and he also provided a patch.
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Ming Zhang identified the Lseek bug in Mksquashfs. His tests on the
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performance of Mksquashfs on SMP systems encouraged the rewrite of
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Mksquashfs.
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Peter Korsgaard, Daniel Olivera and Zilvinas Valinskas noticed
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Squashfs 3.0 didn't compile on Linux-2.6.18-rc[1-4] due to changes
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in the Linux VFS interfaces, and provided patches.
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Tomas Matejicek (SLAX) suggested the -force option on Unsquashfs, and noticed
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Unsquashfs didn't return the correct exit status.
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Yann Le Doare reported a kernel oops and provided a Qemu image that led
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to the identification of the simultaneously accessing multiply mounted Squashfs
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filesystems bug.
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Older acknowledgements
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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
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(/) there was no way to prevent /proc being archived. This prompted
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exclude files.
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Martin Mueller (LinuxTV) - noticed that the filesystem length in the
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superblock doesn't match the output filesystem length. This is due to
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padding to a 4K boundary. This prompted the addition of the -nopad option.
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He also reported a problem where 32K block filesystems hung when used as
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initrds.
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Arkadiusz Patyk (Polish Linux Distribution - PLD) reported a problem where 32K
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block filesystems hung when used as a root filesystem mounted as a loopback
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device.
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Joe Blow emailed me that I'd forgotten to put anything in the README about
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mounting the squashfs filesystem.
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David Fox (Lindows) noticed that the exit codes returned by Mksquashfs were
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wrong. He also noticed that a lot of time was spent in the duplicate scan
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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
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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
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email addresses), noticed that Mksquashfs 1.3 SEGV'd occasionally. Even though
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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,
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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
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not had time to implement anything.
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Artemiy I. Pavlov has written a useful LDP mini-howto for Squashfs
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(http://linuxdoc.artemio.net/squashfs).
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Yves Combe reported the Apple G5 bug, when using Squashfs for
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his PPC Knoppix-mib livecd project.
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Jaco Greeff (mklivecd project, and maintainer of the Mandrake
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squashfs-tools package) suggested the new mksquashfs -ef option, and the
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standalone build for mksquashfs.
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Mike Schaudies made a donation.
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Arkadiusz Patyk from the Polish Linux Distribution reported that Squashfs
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didn't work on amd64 machines. He gave me an account on a PLD amd64 machine
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which allowed myself to track down these bugs.
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Miles Roper, Peter Kjellerstedt and Willy Tarreau reported that release 2.1 did
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not compile with gcc < 3.x.
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Marcel J.E. Mol reported lack of kernel memory issues when using Squashfs
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on small memory embedded systems. This prompted the addition of the embedded
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system kernel configuration options.
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Era Scarecrow noticed that Mksquashfs had not been updated to reflect that
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smaller than 4K blocks are no longer supported.
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Kenichi Shima reported the Kconfig file had not been updated to 2.2.
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Aaron Ten Clay made a donation!
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Tomas Matejicek (SLAX) made a donation!
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