[BusyBox] off topic: genext2fs for filesystems larger than 8MB (was: 'device table support' for mkcramfs?)

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Jan 01, 2003 at 12:23:24PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> >>>Playing with tuxscreen-buildroot, I stumbled the patch for
> >>>genext2fs which adds the cool mkfs.jffs2 option for device table
> >>>support.  Has anyone done a patch from mkcramfs?
> >>
> >>not that I know of...  Adding it to genext2fs was pretty
> >>easy, but for jffs2 I had to largely rewrite mkfs.jffs2,
> >
> >I realize this isn't exactly a timely response, but I did
> >eventually get around to submitting such a patch upstream.
> >The mkcramfs device table patch can be found here:
> >
> >    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=18351&atid=318351
> 
> As long as we're talking about old genext2fs patches,
> Vasan Sundar wrote a patch to allow generating filesystems
> larger than 8 MB with genext2fs.
> We use it daily, and it's very handy.  It was submitted
> to the maintainer of genext2fs, but hasn't been accepted
> yet because it still has a hiccup or two.
> I wanted to mention it here so anyone else who needs that
> functionality doesn't think he has to start from scratch...
> it's (nearly) done.  The patch adds some nice regression tests, too.

Hmm.  Got a pointer to the patch?  Perhaps I'll finish off 
fixing up the genext2fs device_table support (I never did 
completely finish a couple of features).

 -Erik

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