Re: [BUG?] SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch

[Woody Suwalski]

Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > i get the following error when trying to mount a squashfs partition on
> > an ARM system (edb9302) with linux 2.6.29-rc1:
> >
> > mount /dev/mtdblock6 /mnt/
> > SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems
> > are unsupported
> > mount: mounting /dev/mtdblock6 on /mnt/ failed: Invalid argument
> >
> > the image has been created using mksquashfs v3.4:
> >
> > mksquashfs . /tmp/rootfs.squfs -le -noappend
>
> You have to use the latest version of Mksquashfs in CVS available
> from http://squashfs.org.
>
> git-cvsimport -v -d 
> :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/squashfs 
> squashfs
>
> Phillip
Does not look good! I have squashfs images which work OK in 3.3 and 3.4, 
but now I try to boot 2.6.29-rc1 and it can not mount my squashfs root 
partition!
Does it mean that squashfs4 is not backward-compatible? If so - I can 
not use it - all my images are generated on 3.3 .. 3.4...

Woody

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Woody Suwalski, Xandros, Ottawa, Canada, 1-613-842-3498 x414

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