From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 23:42:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91DC37BBA1 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:42:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA31951; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:40:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA37734; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200007040641.XAA37734@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:41:22 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: James Howard Subject: Re: why isnt there a ext2fs.ko ? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Maxime Henrion Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Jul-00 James Howard wrote: > 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? Cool! > Jamie -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message