JFFS2 compression

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Oct 19 10:08:32 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:07 +0200, Ferenc Havasi wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> >>Ferenc, thanks for story, I really interested why the proc support was 
> >>removed. 
> > 
> > It was buggy. There were buffer overflows and similar problems with it.
> > I dropped it and suggested that the reimplementation may as well use
> > sysfs.
> 
> Ups, than I misunderstood you.
> 
> Good to know that the problem was not the using of procfs itself, just 
> my implementation. (it is much easier to fix :) )

Using procfs is _also_ a slight problem -- it would be nicer to use
sysfs. But that's a minor problem not a reason not to merge it.

-- 
dwmw2





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