From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 09:24:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA00539 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00518 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA14993; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:14:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603261714.KAA14993@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Development Information. To: amigus@cs.mun.ca (Adam Migus) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:14:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603260215.WAA27043@maple.cs.mun.ca> from "Adam Migus" at Mar 25, 96 10:45:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A friend and i have considered attempting a port of the second extended > filesystem to BSD. I have looked into this briefly and it doesn't look to > be a simple task but we are willing to try. I do want/need some infornmation > though. > > 1. Is there any kernel hacking documentation outlining the layout of kernel > sources etc. If so where may i find it. > 2. Is there any documentation specific to developing an LKM under FreeBSD, > since our intention is to do that. > > In general do you have any documentation/suggestions/infornmation that you > feel we should have to aid us. Anything would be appreciated. Ext2fs is supported in -current. It may, in fact, have been in the experimental section on the last CDROM. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.