> Recently, though, the 2.0 kernel has proved a bit of a limitation, notably > in that it doesn't support the default ext2 filesystems produced by distros > with 2.2 or 2.4 kernels. Do you have any plans to move to a more recent > kernel? I know I could try doing this myself, but I'm sure you'd do a much > better job... :-) The 2.0.39 kernel I am currently using does in fact support those ext2 filesystems, you should upgrade to tomsrtbt-1.7.218 to get this support. I will be doing other enhancements such as patching the aic7xxx driver up to the level that is in 2.2.18 and 2.4.2. You can always drop your own 2.2 kernel into it, it is not too hard. The default tomsrtbt will *NOT* be going to 2.2.x or 2.4.x anytime soon. There is SO MUCH bloat, you have no idea. The 2.4.2 kernels with the same options are MORE THAN TWICE AS LARGE!!! The 2.4.2 kernel even has a warning when you build it when it is too large for a floppy, *by itself*! It is *conceivable* that with stripping out unused functional sections of kernel object code and changing it to compress with bzip2 instead of gzip, that I could someday get it up to 2.2.18 without too much loss of other things. But, I'll first have to be convinced that 2.0.x has reached the end of its lifetime- and so far, just about the *only* thing that is pushing towards that is the reiserfs, which is not available for 2.0.x. Most of the drivers can be patched the way I will be patching aic7xxx to bring them up to the current level, and many of the new features in 2.2.x and 2.4.x just don't matter. Please do continue to let me know what is in 2.2.x or 2.4.x that you want in tomsrtbt, there may be ways to get the support in 2.0.x. Also, it is really pretty easy to drop a 2.2.x or 2.4.x kernel onto it! -Tom
