From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 10 11:33:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B965F15B90 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:29:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA42235; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:28:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:28:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Martin Hinner Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contribution In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Martin Hinner wrote: > I originally posted this message to -questions mailing list, but it wasn't > probably the right place :-( So, if you read it few days ago, please silently > ignore ;-) > > I use FreeBSD on my home PC and one server. I must say, that I am *very* > satisfied with it. > > a) I am maintainer/author of Filesystems-HOWTO. It's a document describing > dozens of filesystems and accessing them from various OSes. I think it would > be very useful to have this HOWTO in FreeBSD. What do you think? For more > information see http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/. Should I make a port for you? I've found it's better to not ask and just do it, unless it's something controversial. Otherwise you'll get the resounding approval of silence. :) > b) I'd like to write in my HOWTO also about filesystems in FreeBSD. Can you > help me? Any documents, links and other information are *very* welcome. I'd > like to ask also BSD FFS developers. As you probably know, docs are sparse; the code is sometimes the best doc. > c) Few months ago I wrote BFS (UnixWare boot filesystem) Linux kernel > implementation. Because implemented better (read-write) > version of it, my version is obsolete. If you want to port this code to > FreeBSD, I can re-release it under BSD license. There is small problem - I've > never developed anything to FreeBSD kernel. But I have kernel-level > development experience. The filesystem layer isn't one of the easier parts of the system to work with, but since you're the writing type, document your attempt. > d) I installed FreeBSD on extended partition using GRUB bootmanager (see GNU > homepage). Are you interested? [Some people asked me to write step-by-step > howto. But it is not easy, so I'd like to make small changes to sysinstall to > accept also extended FreeBSD partitions]. Don't ask, just do it! :) Provide patches! Patches speak louder than words. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message