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diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2097bb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ + ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +Thanks to everyone who have downloaded Squashfs. I appreciate people +using it, and any feedback you have. + +The following have provided useful feedback, which has guided +some of the extra features in squashfs. This is a randomly ordered +(roughly in chronological order) list, which is updated when +I remember... + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.3 +--------------------------------- + +Thanks to Bruno Wolff III and Andy Lutomirski for useful feedback +during the long development process of Squashfs 4.3. + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.2 +--------------------------------- + +Thanks to Lasse Collin (http://tukaani.org/xz/) for mainlining XZ +decompression support. + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.1 +--------------------------------- + +Thanks to Chan Jeong <chan.jeong@lge.com> and LG for the patches to support LZO +compression. + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs 4.0 +--------------------------------- + +Thanks to Tim Bird and CELF (Consumer Electronics Linux Forum) for helping +fund mainstreaming of Squashfs into the 2.6.29 kernel and the +changes to the Squashfs tools to support the new 4.0 file system layout. + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.3 +------------------------------------ + +Peter Korsgaard and others sent patches updating Squashfs to changes in the +VFS interface for 2.6.22/2.6.23/2.6.24-rc1. Peter also sent some small patches +for the Squashfs kernel code. + +Vito Di Leo sent a patch extending Mksquashfs to support regex filters. +While his patched worked, it unfortunately made it easy to make Mksquashfs +perform unpredictably with poorly choosen regex expressions. It, however, +encouraged myself to add support for wildcard pattern matching and regex +filters in a different way. + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.2-r2 +------------------------------------ + +Junjiro Okajima discovered a couple of SMP issues, thanks. + +Junjiro Okajima and Tomas Matejicek have produced some good LZMA patches +for Squashfs. + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.2 +--------------------------------- + +Peter Korsgaard sent a patch updating Squashfs to changes in the VFS interface +in Linux 2.6.20. + +Acknowledgements for Squashfs-3.1 +--------------------------------- + +Kenneth Duda and Ed Swierk of Arastra Inc. identified numerous bugs with +Squashfs, and provided patches which were the basis for some of the +fixes. In particular they identified the fragment rounding bug, the +NFS bug, the initrd bug, and helped identify the 4K stack overflow bug. + +Scott James Remnant (Ubuntu) also identified the fragment rounding bug, +and he also provided a patch. + +Ming Zhang identified the Lseek bug in Mksquashfs. His tests on the +performance of Mksquashfs on SMP systems encouraged the rewrite of +Mksquashfs. + +Peter Korsgaard, Daniel Olivera and Zilvinas Valinskas noticed +Squashfs 3.0 didn't compile on Linux-2.6.18-rc[1-4] due to changes +in the Linux VFS interfaces, and provided patches. + +Tomas Matejicek (SLAX) suggested the -force option on Unsquashfs, and noticed +Unsquashfs didn't return the correct exit status. + +Yann Le Doare reported a kernel oops and provided a Qemu image that led +to the identification of the simultaneously accessing multiply mounted Squashfs +filesystems bug. + + +Older acknowledgements +---------------------- + +Mark Robson - pointed out early on that initrds didn't work + +Adam Warner - pointed out that greater than 2GB filesystems didn't work. + +John Sutton - raised the problem when archiving the entire filesystem +(/) there was no way to prevent /proc being archived. This prompted +exclude files. + +Martin Mueller (LinuxTV) - noticed that the filesystem length in the +superblock doesn't match the output filesystem length. This is due to +padding to a 4K boundary. This prompted the addition of the -nopad option. +He also reported a problem where 32K block filesystems hung when used as +initrds. + +Arkadiusz Patyk (Polish Linux Distribution - PLD) reported a problem where 32K +block filesystems hung when used as a root filesystem mounted as a loopback +device. + +David Fox (Lindows) noticed that the exit codes returned by Mksquashfs were +wrong. He also noticed that a lot of time was spent in the duplicate scan +routine. + +Cameron Rich complained that Squashfs did not support FIFOs or sockets. + +Steve Chadsey and Thomas Weissmuller noticed that files larger than the +available memory could not be compressed by Mksquashfs. + +"Ptwahyu" and "Hoan" (I have no full names and I don't like giving people's +email addresses), noticed that Mksquashfs 1.3 SEGV'd occasionally. Even though +I had already noticed this bug, it is useful to be informed by other people. + +Don Elwell, Murray Jensen and Cameron Rich, have all sent in patches. Thanks, +I have not had time to do anything about them yet... + +Drew Scott Daniels has been a good advocate for Squashfs. + +Erik Andersen has made some nice suggestions, unfortunately, I have +not had time to implement anything. + +Artemiy I. Pavlov has written a useful LDP mini-howto for Squashfs +(http://linuxdoc.artemio.net/squashfs). + +Yves Combe reported the Apple G5 bug, when using Squashfs for +his PPC Knoppix-mib livecd project. + +Jaco Greeff (mklivecd project, and maintainer of the Mandrake +squashfs-tools package) suggested the new mksquashfs -ef option, and the +standalone build for mksquashfs. + +Mike Schaudies made a donation. + +Arkadiusz Patyk from the Polish Linux Distribution reported that Squashfs +didn't work on amd64 machines. He gave me an account on a PLD amd64 machine +which allowed myself to track down these bugs. + +Miles Roper, Peter Kjellerstedt and Willy Tarreau reported that release 2.1 did +not compile with gcc < 3.x. + +Marcel J.E. Mol reported lack of kernel memory issues when using Squashfs +on small memory embedded systems. This prompted the addition of the embedded +system kernel configuration options. + +Era Scarecrow noticed that Mksquashfs had not been updated to reflect that +smaller than 4K blocks are no longer supported. + +Kenichi Shima reported the Kconfig file had not been updated to 2.2. + +Aaron Ten Clay made a donation! + +Tomas Matejicek (SLAX) made a donation! |