[Squashfs-devel] Reading older SquashFS

[David B. <da...@bj...>]

Dear SquashFS

I have TBs of archived data on SquashFS volumes. It has always worked
great for me, so a big thank you to all the devs.

However, after upgrading to Fedora 11, which contains the 2.6.29 kernel
with SquashFS in-tree, I can no longer mount my archives. This is what I
get in dmesg:

SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems are
unsupported

Why, oh why, would you drop support for older versions of a filesystem
"intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use (i.e.
in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used)"?

But enough whining, is there anything I can do to fix the situation
other than extracting all the data with the command line tool to a
scratch location and generate new 4.0 filesystems?

Regards,
David