From: qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) Subject: EMERGENCY: xiafs in Linux-0.99.7 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 18:30:32 GMT
Hi,
There are some inhencement in xiafs supposed to be included in official
linux 0.99.7 distribution. But when I got the distribution, I found it's
not there. As a result, xiafspgm-0.8.tar.Z I uploaded to linux sites
yesterday will not work with linux 0.99.7.
You still need xfspgm-0.7.tar.Z with xfspgm-0.7.fix which you have now,
or xfsck and mkxfs from H.J. Lu's rootdisk.
If you have run (0.8) xfsck, and your xiafs is not accessable any more,
do not panic. Get xiafs-0.7pl3 from tsx-11 or sunsite in xiafs dir,
Apply patch to linux-0.99.7. It is for linux-0.99.6/xiafs-0.7.2, but it
should work with linux-0.99.7 (patch may report "off xxx lines").
Your xiafs will be accessable again and work normally under patched
kernel. But you have to continuous using xiafspgm-0.8.
I will contect Linus, ask him to include the inhencement in next release.
Sorry for the confusing.
Frank Xia.