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| -rw-r--r-- | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-README | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-READMEs/README-2.1 | 4 |
5 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS index ddd0243..c086db4 100644 --- a/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS +++ b/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS @@ -65,3 +65,6 @@ 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. @@ -1,4 +1,12 @@ SQUASHFS CHANGE LOG + +2.1-r2 15 DEC 2004 Code changed so it can be compiled with gcc 2.x + + 1. In some of the code added for release 2.1 I unknowingly used some + gcc extensions only supported by 3.x compilers. I have received + a couple of reports that the 2.1 release doesn't build on 2.x and so + people are clearly still using gcc 2.x. The code has been + rewritten to remove these extensions. 2.1 10 DEC 2004 Significantly improved directory handling plus numerous other smaller improvements @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ INSTALLING SQUASHFS -The squashfs2.1.tar.gz file contains this file, a README file, +The squashfs2.1-r2.tar.gz file contains this file, a README file, an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file, a CHANGES file, the squashfs patch directories/files, and the squashfs-tools directory (mksquashfs). diff --git a/RELEASE-README b/RELEASE-README index 8987421..f08d9aa 100644 --- a/RELEASE-README +++ b/RELEASE-README @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Released under the GPL licence (version 2 or later). -Welcome to Squashfs version 2.1. Significant improvements to directory -handling and numerous other smaller improvements have been made. Please -see the README-2.1 and CHANGES files for further details. +Welcome to Squashfs version 2.1-r2. Significant improvements to +directory handling and numerous other smaller improvements have been made. +Please see the README-2.1 and CHANGES files for further details. Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib compression to compress both files, inodes and directories. diff --git a/RELEASE-READMEs/README-2.1 b/RELEASE-READMEs/README-2.1 index ff4210c..e70167e 100644 --- a/RELEASE-READMEs/README-2.1 +++ b/RELEASE-READMEs/README-2.1 @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Released under the GPL licence (version 2 or later). -Welcome to Squashfs version 2.1. This release introduces indexed directories. -Indexed directories considerably speed up directory lookup (ls, find etc.) for +Welcome to Squashfs version 2.1-r2. Squashfs 2.1 introduces indexed +directories which considerably speed up directory lookup (ls, find etc.) for directories which are greater than 8K in size. All directories are now also sorted alphabetically which further speeds up directory lookup. Many smaller improvements have also been made to this release, please see the CHANGES file |