[syslinux] [PATCH 2/2] core/fs: Add support for Unix File system 1/2.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/29/2014 07:49 AM, Raphael S Carvalho wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:40 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it did.  However, it would be better to implement it.  As far as I
>> know, UFS symlinks are very similar to ext* symlinks (not surprising
>> since ext2 was heavily inspired by UFS): symlinks below a specific size
>> is stored in the inode overlaying the block pointers, and otherwise the
>> symlink is just an ordinary file.
> I initially thought that readlink was intended for hard link, don't we
> support them? But then it occurred to me that readlink is, of course,
> intended for symlinks.
> Don't you think the series could be merged as it-is? I will work on
> ufs_readlink at this weekend, and as you mentioned, it shouldn't take
> that long as ext2 could be used as a reference. I would love to see
> the series merged as it has been around for months :-)

I don't want to merge an under-development feature this late in the
release cycle.  In fact, if someone would be willing to write up the
release notes for 6.03 we are very close to be able to cut a 6.03
release, but I will have no time to do *anything* for quite a few days.
 I'm hoping I'll have time to sleep.

	-hpa