Re: LNX-BBC a Knoppix Customization?

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:55, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> 	Seeing the need for space, Paul "Rusty" Russel (who was a
> Linuxcare employee at the time) wrote cloop to make more space
> available to the BBC.  It was submitted to be included in the main
> kernel, but Linus did a typical sort of NIH reimplementation that the
> BBC folks decided wasn't good enough.  The BBC continued to use
> Rusty's cloop.

I wasn't aware there was ever a cloop type thing in the kernel.  Unless
CramFS is what it is now?

> 	Klaus Knopper took over cloop maintenance, roughly
> concurrently with his creation of the knoppix project.  I believe the
> BBCs used Knopper's cloops after Rusty stopped working on it. At any
> rate, the LNX-BBC project uses Klaus's cloop releases (and if you run
> your GAR tree, you'll see that the cloop package downloads from
> knopper.net!).

cloop is so cool, I think it deserves its own page with information
about it... like why it won't compile for 2.6...

Any idea about any status of porting it to 2.6?  I've wanted to run
LNX-BBC with a 2.6 kernel, but haven't exactly been able to since
there's no cloop that works with it at the moment.  :-)

Rob