From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 2 9:15:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C926814C03 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:15:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA23733 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:15:12 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA81040 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:15:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB0014C03 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:05:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id JAA27754 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA28212; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:05:05 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn7.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA11985; Tue, 2 Nov 99 09:05:04 PST Message-Id: <381F19C0.577FFA0D@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:05:04 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Extended partitions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I lent my 3.3 CDROMs to a friend who is a dedicated linux-head last night. He was disappointed to find that FreeBSD doesn't support installing onto a logical drive on an extended partition. In response, he offered to write support for such for FreeBSD. I'm willing to shepherd his work, collect reviews, commit when ready, and such. Is this something we (collective "we", not royal "we") are interested in? In case you're wondering about Chris' ability to deliver, he used to work on filesystem code at some large network server company in Utah, and is pretty clueful. He's even willing to release the code under BSD license terms, so we wouldn't have to worry about silly encumberances. Yes? No? Maybe? If there is sufficient interest, I'll explain to him how to CVSup and get him rolling on it ASAP. This would be nice to have for 4.0 release. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message