Subject: Re: ext2fs is in the tree
To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.ibp.fr>
From: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 06/11/1997 11:04:22
Excellent!
I just finished making some changes to get ext2fs to merge in with current
<Grin>. Did you modify fstat and pstat as well for ext2fs support?
Thank for all your excellent work (atapi stuff too).
Rick
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Manuel BOUYER wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thoses of you who watch sources-changes have noticed it, I commited
> my ext2fs layer to the source tree today. This include support in the kernel,
> and the mount_ext2fs and fsck_ext2fs utilities. The kernel sources
> are available in today's sup, but not the userland, cvs was to slow.
> Thoses who can't wait for the next sup can grab the
> ftp://antioche.ibp.fr/pub/NetBSD/unofficial/non-gpl-ext2fs/ext2fs.tar.gz
> package, and extract the needed sources from it.
>
> This has been heavily tested on my two boxes here, wich have a NetBSD/Linux
> boot, and where all my sources are on an ext2 partition. I didn't encounter
> major filesystem loose, and fsck_ext2fs always found and corrected the
> problem.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
> --
>
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