Update to Squash version 3.4?

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Mon Mar 23 20:19:24 UTC 2009


TJ wrote:
> Watching the ubuntu-server list I saw an exchange about squashfs export
> being disabled and therefore not available for NFS.
> 
> Phillip Lougher reported it is due to Intrepid and now Jaunty being
> based on an old version of Squash (v3.3 - supports up to v2.5.24)
> instead of version 3.4 (released 26th August 2008) which supports
> v2.6.25 and later.
> 
> I wonder if this is something we should be investigating?
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2009-March/002705.html
> 
> 

At this late stage in the Jaunty release cycle I'm quite reluctant to
make a change of that magnitude. We will, however, get it for free in
Karmic since squashfs is now upstream.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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