Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:23:47 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, baum@actcom.co.il, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EXT2FS code from -current to -stable Message-ID: <199710071623.SAA03948@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199710071333.XAA21776@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 7, 97 11:33:59 pm"
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
> >Now we are talking about ext2fs, what about the version that OpenBSD
> >has, its GPL free (yeah!), do they have a fix for this.
>
> Do you mean the NetBSD version? :-) It should never have had this bug,
Sorry just saw it in OpenBSD (they are kind of the same to me anyways)
> since the bug is caused by semantic mismatch between BSD buffer handling
> and vestiges of Linux buffer handling in the GPL'ed part (the Linux and
> FreeBSD versions of ext2fs want to hang on to buffers for bitmaps, but
> BSD wants buffers to be released as soon as possible).
>
> I was waiting for the Lite2 merge, but that seems to have been done a
> few months ago, at least in the NetBSD version.
So, should we go for it ?? I might find a couple of spare hours to do it..
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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