From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 10:16:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f260.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE9AC37B9EC for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from the_hermit665@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 51801 invoked by uid 0); 4 Jul 2000 17:16:35 -0000 Message-ID: <20000704171635.51800.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 207.246.128.137 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:16:35 PDT X-Originating-IP: [207.246.128.137] Reply-To: the_hermit665@hotmail.com From: "Cosmic 665" To: adrian@FreeBSD.ORG, howardjp@glue.umd.edu Cc: mhenrion@cybercable.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why isnt there a ext2fs.ko ? Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:16:35 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Statically Compiled modules are much better then the lkd's. Get used to it :P > > > > > 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? > >If noone beats me to it, I'll look at it after I've committed the >couple of things in my commit queue. > > > >Adrian > >-- >Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the > rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and > he's warm for the rest of his life. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message