Ok. I've made a umsdos-2.4.9-4 patch
that seems to fix all known 2.4.x issues. It is against 2.4.9 kernel.
There are some changes that got in 2.4.10pre, so it will not apply cleanly
against that. Use this umsdos-2.4.10pre2 patch if you use one
of those.
Documentation is still not up-to-date, but I'm working on that. Patch
against 2.4.10pre2 was sent to Linus, so I hope for inclusion in 2.4.10 when
it comes out...
OK, here is one test-patch: it is really a kludge, and only a
half-functional one at that, but I did manage to boot with init=/bin/sh with
it! It dies a little while later, but it's a start. Could you people please
test umsdos-2.4.0-kludge1 ? It
is against 2.4.0 release, but should work for few versions up and down.
This one tries to fix:
- symlinks were created with last character choped off
- creating hardlinks were dying a terrible death
- pseudo-root (booting from UMSDOS partition) was totally defunct
For non-boot use, it should be mostly OK (only minor issues AFAIK, see
[somewhat outdated] Known problems)
Biggest problem is that UMSDOS pseudo-root does not work (so you cannot use
UMSDOS as your boot partition). I'm trying to work on it, but it is
extremely difficult (no tools to debug this type of problem, only bunch of
printk's). If you have any ideas/suggestions/help, I'm open for it!
I've tried usermode-linux patch, but it fails to compile for me for 2.4.0.
And it seems to modify behaviur anyway.
Get a small patch here
to fix compile problems in test6 and test7 (or wait for
test8 - hopefully it will make it in by then).
Get 2.4.0-test5i diff against
2.4.0-test5 (or test3/test4 if you don't like test5).
Fixes:
- inability to create new files in directories (introduced by -test3 changes)
- Oops when updating EMD status
- Oops when EMD corrupted with invalid file length
- corrects statfs(2) max. file length
here is quick fix
for OOPS on write problem in 2.4.0test3 and newer -- at least it doesn't
OOPS any more, although I think I've seen strange things happening (created
directory is not seen, but new attempt to recreate it give EEXIST, and after
a while it automagically appears). I'd appreciate all bug reports on 2.4.x
kernels, no matter if you already reported it or not -- just to make sure I
don't miss anything.
Here is umsdos-2.3.41g patch against
clean 2.3.41 kernel (actually, anything between 2.3.32 and 2.3.42 -
for 2.3.x kernels older than that try looking here).
It is port of umsdos-2.2.14g patch to 2.3.x, so look above to see
what it fixes.