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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:05:45 -0800
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>,
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Subject: Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile
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Thus spake Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> * De: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> [ Data: 2003-01-27 ]
> 	[ Subjecte: Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile ]
> > hi, there!
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:40:12AM +0200, Enache Adrian wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:36:35PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > > Portions of the ext2fs source are covered by the GPL.  You
> > > > need to rebuild the kernel with "option EXT2FS".  The
> > > > FreeBSD cannot create a ext2fs.ko and comply with the GPL.
> > > 
> > > This is weird.
> > > Builting it as part of kernel is ok, but separate, as a module
> > > isn't.
> > 
> > IIRC NetBSD has BSD-copyrighted ext2fs implementation
> 
> Closely tied to their VFS implementation, which is different, of course,
> last I heard it was a fairly heavy task to port it, but something a lot
> of people would like to see.

Does it work any better/worse than FreeBSD's implementation?

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