Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Thanks for your reply, Michael. And all your efforts to get the patch in. Michael Schmitz - 13.06.23, 09:58:09 CEST: > Am 13.06.2023 um 19:20 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz - 13.06.23, 08:47:11 CEST: > >> I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Martin, Am 13.06.2023 um 19:20 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz - 13.06.23, 08:47:11 CEST: I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the kernel is, did it receive the fixes that Michael(?) was working on? I vaguely remember there were some issues

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Check out the format section... it will create filesystems: https://amitools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/xdftool.html I haven't tried it directly on a drive as opposed to an image but there's a good likelihood it might just work. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 12:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Martin! On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 09:20 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz - 13.06.23, 08:47:11 CEST: > > I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the > > kernel is, did it receive the fixes that Michael(?) was working on? I > > vaguely remember there

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Stefan! On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 00:15 -0700, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > I have found amitools from Christian Vogelgsang to be a good tool > for creating and manipulating affs. Looks interesting [1] but it doesn't seem to contain any tool for creating and checking AFFS filesystems. Adrian > [1]

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz - 13.06.23, 08:47:11 CEST: > I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the > kernel is, did it receive the fixes that Michael(?) was working on? I > vaguely remember there were some issues with larger filesystems or so > and that someone was working on

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 08:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Also, I noticed that Roman Zippel actually created an affstools package [1] > back in the day and I wonder whether anyone has any experience with it. In > particular, I'm wondering what »different mkfs.affs« Artem Bityutskiy is

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread Stefan Reinauer
I have found amitools from Christian Vogelgsang to be a good tool for creating and manipulating affs. On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 11:47 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the kernel > is, > did

Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Artem! On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 09:53 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > I apologize, that message was sent 10 years ago and I do not remember details > any longer. No worries, thanks for the quick reply! > What I do remember is that I was doing some cross-filesystem changes and > struggled to

Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

2023-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the kernel is, did it receive the fixes that Michael(?) was working on? I vaguely remember there were some issues with larger filesystems or so and that someone was working on fixing these issues. Also, I noticed that Roman

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2023-06-06

2023-06-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Michael! On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 18:00 +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > AFAIR update-initramfs -u only replaces the /lib/modules directory > structure in an existing initramfs image, and leaves the rest of the > files unchanged. But I admit I haven't tried that on installer images... > > If

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2023-06-06

2023-06-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Adrian, AFAIR update-initramfs -u only replaces the /lib/modules directory structure in an existing initramfs image, and leaves the rest of the files unchanged. But I admit I haven't tried that on installer images... If that fails, manually unpacking the image and repacking using cpio