From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 26 05:26:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA16575 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 05:26:48 -0800 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA16564 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 05:26:45 -0800 From: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA18938 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 05:26:13 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.11/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id PAA00804 ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 15:26:55 +0200 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27638; Sun, 26 Mar 95 15:26:32 +0200 Received: (card@localhost) by bbj.ibp.fr (8.6.9/bbj-1.0) id PAA00981; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 15:01:35 GMT Message-Id: <199503261501.PAA00981@bbj.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad To: pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (william pechter ILEX) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 15:01:34 +0000 () Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503231155.DAA13542@wcarchive.cdrom.com> from "william pechter ILEX" at Mar 23, 95 06:54:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1241 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > One question is -- should we just port ext2fs? (There's already a lot of > people experimenting with both FreeBSD and Linux. There's already a > read-only port of FFS to Linux. I have already talked with Jordan about this port. I plan to port Ext2fs to FreeBSD as ssoon as I get a little free time. > One drawback is the need to make ALL the BSD utilities (dump, restore, etc.) > play nice with ext2fs. (One reason I went to BSD from Linux was the lack > of dump/restore). Well, Ext2fs comes with its own utilities (mkfs, fsck, tunefs, dumpfs, mklost+found, debugfs -- the filesystem debugger) so the BSD utilities should not need to be modified when Ext2fs is ported to FreeBSD. Oh, BTW, I have ported dump and restore (the 4.4BSD versions) to Ext2fs and they run fine. They are not public yet (there are in testing phase) but I should be able to make a public release next week. > Cpio and tar do not make a backup scheme. > > Bill > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | > Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 > 908-532-2369 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil > Remy