| Information for amd64 users |
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| All previous releases of Squashfs (2.0-alpha and older) generate incorrect |
| filesystems on amd64 machines. These filesystems work correctly on amd64 |
| machines, but cannot be mounted on non-amd64 machines. Likewise, filesystems |
| generated on non amd64 machines could not be mounted on amd64 machines. |
| This bug was caused by the different size of the "time_t" definition used in |
| SquashFS filesystem structures. |
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| This bug is now fixed in this release. However, all amd64 filesystems |
| generated by previous releases will not be mountable on amd64 machines |
| with this release. If you have pre-existing amd64 generated filesystems, |
| it is important that you recreate the filesystem. This can be performed |
| by mounting the filesystem using a kernel with the original patch |
| (i.e. a 2.0-alpha or older patch) and running the SquashFS 2.0 |
| (i.e. this release) mksquashfs tool to create a new SquashFS filesystem. |
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