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From: graichen@titania.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: what is the status of porting ext2 fs to FreeBSD?
Date: 9 Nov 1995 20:16:13 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Pete Kruckenberg (pete@inquo.net) wrote:
: Kevin Layer (layer@Franz.COM) wrote:
: : I've heard the Linux ext2 filesystem is being ported to FreeBSD, but I
: : haven't heard any details.  Is it true?  If so, I'd love to hear some
: : more details...

: I'm not doing it, but I have seen some stuff about it on this channel. 
: Ext2 is being ported for FreeBSD 2.2, and will be everything it is for 
: Linux, plus it'll support filesystem quotas and some other cool stuff.
: I'd suspect that once it's ported, someone will be porting the new 
: features back to Linux.

the first stuff was imported into -current this week - john it's your part :-)

t

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