From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 6: 5:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5089E37B9B9 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (root@y.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.68]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e63D5MI03451; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:05:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA03955; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:05:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03951; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:05:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:05:21 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Maxime Henrion Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why isnt there a ext2fs.ko ? In-Reply-To: <396085C0.15FA5203@cybercable.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Hi guys, > > I was wondering why the kernel module for ext2fs doesnt exist. I > think this will be very useful because a lot of linux users come to > FreeBSD and want to mount their existing linux partitions, and they have > to recompile their kernel. This isn't a hard task, but it's a bit > disappointing for new users. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=14217 But it doesn't seem to compile with FreeBSD-current anymore. Give me a day or so and I will update it work with a newer FreeBSD. On this topic, how would anyone feel about importing NetBSD's GPL-clean ext2fs source? Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message