From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/8 version 4] exofs for kernel 2.6.30
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:21:23 +0300
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Cc: Avishay Traeger <avishay@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>,
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	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org

On 04/01/2009 12:23 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> If anyone wants to actually run this code and test it
>> then please start reading at:
>>     http://open-osd.org
>> You will need to checkout the out-of-tree git (below) for the user-mode utilities.
>> Also the exofs.txt file in patch 7/8 should help
> 
> 
> hum...  trying to play with this.  If you want exofs to go upstream, I 
> think you should have a release tarball containing the user-mode utils 
> posted somewhere.  Would make life a lot easier, both on early adopters 
> and also on distribution packagers.
> 
> 	Jeff

You are absolutely right, once 2.6.30 will be out there will not be a need
to compile Kernel modules.

About the binary package. I must admit I'm a total novice. What do I need to do?

One x86_32, one x86_64? What glibc, does it matter what distro I compile on?

I want to have a "make rpm" and "make deb" but I've never done that, I was hoping
someone more experienced would pick it up.

But you are right I have it on my schedule to work on the Wiki, installation and
init-scripts, right after this final push to mainline.

Sorry, for not having this already
Boaz

BTW:
  Source tar balls are available from the gitweb GUI by pressing on the
  "snapshot" link next to any commit. I should link to it from the WiKi

Best regards
Boaz