Re: New version of e2compress patch (0.4.42) for LINUX 2.4.16.

[William Stearns]

Good day, Denis,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Denis RICHARD wrote:

> A new version of the e2compress patch (0.4.42) for kernel 2.4.16 is available.
> 
> Changes from 0.4.41 to 0.4.42 :
> ===============================
>  - Delete the i_blocks field decrementation (Thanks to Peter Wächtler).
>  - Clear dirty bit of buffers not in compressed area, after compression.
>  - Unlock pages before sync of inode, after compression.
>  - Change parameters (OSYNC_METADATA|OSYNC_DATA) of generic_osync_inode()
>    calls to write data inode.
>  - Ext2_readpage() returns an error code.
>  - Allocation of working area even when readonly mount.
>  - Clear dirty bit of buffers after uncompress in ext2_readpage.
>  - Unlock page after free buffers in error case in ext2_readpage.
> 
>   If someone is interested by this version of the patch,
> Let me know, I will mail it.
> 
>   Feel free to contat me if you have some questions.
> 
>   Have fun.

	Would you be willing to place it on a web or ftp server and post 
the URL here?
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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