Subject: Re: e2fsprogs [was: RE: CVS commit: pkgsrc]
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/06/2000 19:09:32
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>  > We probably should, and I'll give you the first data point:
> 
> No, we shouldn't.
> 
> We already have an fsck_ext2fs, and making a newfs_ext2fs based on
> newfs_ffs probably would not be that hard.  ext2fs really is just
> a (bad) clone of FFS, so there's not much use in asking the author
> to release that code under a different license, when we would be
> better served by taking one of our FS tools that's "close already"
> and making it into the right thing.

OK for newfs_ext2fs, if we get manuel to do the work (he's on holiday for
the next 1.8 weeks). 

But will it be as easy to write resizeffs? 


  - Hubert

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