From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 10:41:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA18163 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:41:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18151 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:41:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA02734; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:38:57 -0500 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199602071838.NAA02734@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: reading ufs from OS/2 To: peters@staidan.qld.edu.au (Peter Stubbs) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:38:55 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <4C7B802361D@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> from "Peter Stubbs" at Feb 7, 96 11:08:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi all, > > I've just seen an announcement in comp.os2.announce of a free .ifs for > OS/2 to be able to read & write to linux partitions. > > QUOTE > --------- > ext2-os2.ifs is a file system driver that allows OS/2 to seamlessly > access Linux native partitions (ext2fs partitions) in both read and > write modes. Once installed, Linux partitions appear as standard OS/2 > drive letters, one per Linux partition. > ---------- > ENDQUOTE > > How alien is the linux file system from the FBSD one? Would it work? > It would be nice if it did! > Boy I wish someone would write this for FreeBSD (or hpfs for FreeBSD). It's the one reason I'm considering Linux on my laptop... Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |