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

Raphael S Carvalho raphael.scarv at gmail.com
Thu May 29 07:59:17 PDT 2014


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:54 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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.
Understood. I will work on ufs_readlink then, resend the series, and
expect it to get merged into the next rc.
>
>         -hpa
>
>



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Raphael S. Carvalho


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