hfs cdrom broken in 2.4.13pre

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Oct 24 01:52:45 EST 2001


> > was code in block layer to provide broken FS's compatibility and that
> > code has been removed, then we must fix the FS. Who's HFS maintainer ?
>
> Orphaned I think. But I agree it should be fixed. Using loopback on the
> sly doesn't sound a lot cleaner than a reblocking hack in the HFS driver
> :-)

Believe me it is a lot lot cleaner. It isnt just HFS, its almost all file
systems. If you add a generic reblocking layer it ends up looking remarkably
like the loopback driver

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