From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jun 18 14:37:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9168437B715; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) Received: from gateway.posi.net (user-33qth64.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.196.196]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA13519; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:37:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by gateway.posi.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09441; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 14:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey To: Leonard den Ottolander Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Posting patch concerning linux extended to freebsd-fs? In-Reply-To: <018fb0509141260NET014S@hetnet.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi folks! > > I would like to submit a (three line) patch to enable the use of linux > extended filesystem. Note: Extended as in dos extended, not ext2fs . The linux > extended partition is just a dos extended partition with a different > identifier, as not to confuse dos. > I am not sure whether the freebsd-fs list is used only for matters concerning > the BSD filesystem, or postings on compatibility with other filesystems are > welcome here as well. > Send us the patches. :) Out of curiosity, what exactly does your patch do? DOS extended partitions are logically just mini-disks with their own partition table. The idea being to be able to chain partition tables (in theory, it could be a tree, but DOS can only handle chaining). I find it hard to believe that a 3 line patch would be enought to enumerate the partitions inside extended partitions, must less with arbitrary depth. But I've been amazed before :) Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message