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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!excalibur!excalibur!not-for-mail From: card@excalibur.ibp.fr (Remy Card) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: what is the status of porting ext2 fs to FreeBSD? Date: 13 Nov 1995 15:06:54 +0100 Organization: Institut Blaise Pascal - Universites Paris 6 et Paris 7 - Paris - France Lines: 22 Message-ID: <487jdu$65n@excalibur.ibp.fr> References: <oviovx9xf.fsf@vapor.Franz.COM> <47rirf$sq8@xymox.dsw.com> <47tofp$kvp@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: excalibur.ibp.fr In article <47tofp$kvp@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >1) It's based on the MACH ext2fs code. Not exactly: the Mach does not contain any filesystem code, except the bootstrap code that contains a very minimal interpretation of some filesystem structures. The Ext2fs support in FreeBSD-current is derived from Godmar Back's work in the Lites BSD server, and is mostly based on the 4.4BSD FFS code. >2) It's already in the -current source tree. If you SUP > -current, then you have it on your machine now. Yep, but it does not work very well yet :-) > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. Remy