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Supermount-ng for kernel 2.6.22.1

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supermount for kernel release 2.6.21.1

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release for kernel 2.6.20

I have released path for kernel 2.6.19. There was not much testing but apparently some folks need it and unfortunately development seemed stalled (bad fate it seems).

Happy New Year!

Hi everybody.

A new version is out (hurray!)

I have also started a new version system. The version number of the supermount patches will from now on be the version number of the kernel that the patch applies to plus a 2 digit number. I think this will make it easier for everyone. So, that is why this is not version 2.0.5 but version 2.6.16-r1-01.

I hope it is bug free, but if not, we will just have to release a new version soon.

Sad to say, this project seems to have been dead for quite a while. Andrey Borzenkov (bor) that has been the administrator of this project has told me that it is very unlikely he will continue to work on it.

But now he has given Terje Bråten (that is me) full administration privileges to this project, and I hope we can have some life in this project again and it can be risen from the dead.
In order for that to happen I need a lot of help from you other guys who are interested and want to make supermount to be a success. I am not that deep into the kernel internals, but as a start I have managed to make a new version that will function with the 2.16-r1 kernel.... read more

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!

This is mostly to answer requests for patches for
2.4.23 and 2.6.0. These versions also attempt to
fix USB drives removal problem - if you observed
that USB drive removal was not detected please try
once more - it is hopefully fixed now.

Best regards

Bug fix release. Fixes deadlock on double mount (mount/ mnt/cdrom; mount /mnt/cdrom hangs uninterruptible).

Sorry for delay, I was busy at work, now hopefully I will have more time again.

This version is mostly cleanup and updates for -test8.

It contains fix for a buglet introduced in 1.2.8 - "cd /mnt/cdrom; ls" would return "Stale NFS handle" if no media was inserted. It should instead show empty directory now (as in other cases).

These versions allow open and readdir on filesystem root (effectively mountpoint) even if no media is present. Also when media is mounted notification is sent so any program monitoring mountpoint - FAM - will see changes immediately.

It does NOT eliminate probing for media every time. Just to avoid misunderstanding.

The 2.0.1 patch is still for 2.5.75. I can't keep up pace with those guys :) I hope it should apply to 2.6.0-pre1 as well, will test ASAP.

This adds missing media management bits and getattr support. Now 2.5 version has mostly the same functionality as 2.4 (modulo some kernel changes); we may look forward to adding more 2.5 specific features :)

This won't apply to earlier kernel versions due to sd.c changes; if you do not use SCSI removable disks (like Jaz) you can safely ignore this part.

This is minor update mostly adding some documentation clarifications. The reason was to sync patch with 2.4.21 final as some people were uneasy about patch for rc.

Please, use patch for 2.4.21-rc1. It applies without problems. When next release appears it will be diffed against 2.4.21.

Let me know in case there are any problems using this patch for 2.4.21.

Minor update to fix rejects on 2.5.72 (which makes it incompatible with previous kernels). I was short of time recently to do more work.

First version that supports kernel 2.5 is available. The patch is against 2.5.70. Attempt to keep single source failed due to overwhelming number of ifdef's so supermount for 2.5 gets major version number 2.

It is mostly preview release, some things are still missing (details in Release Notes). Still it allows me to access both CD-ROM and floppy including read-write support just like in 2.4. Support for other drivers is still missing.... read more

It is primarily bugfix version. It was impossible to access ro media if supermount filesystem was mounted rw.

This seems to be popular question. I am working on it and hope to make it available during next month. Patches for 2.4 won't apply due to internal changes.

Please be patient :)

This is primarily bugfix release. It fixes nasty bug leading to possible memory corruption. See details in release notices

Supermount 1.2.5 patches for kernels 2.4.21-0.13mdk, 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-rc1.