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From: John Dyson <dyson>
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Subject: Re: Implementation of ext2fs for FreeBSD 2.2?
To: pete@dsw.com (Pete Kruckenberg)
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 12:04:52 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> I've heard that the ext2fs (of Linux fame) is being added for FreeBSD 
> 2.2. I remember reading several months ago a post by one of the people 
> who did ext2fs for Linux, that this time it would be "done right", 
> especially the filesystem quotas.
> 
> If someone could just take a minute, I'd like to know how ext2fs for
> FreeBSD will differ from the Linux implementation, whether there'll be
> filesystem quotas, and what other improvements it'll offer over ufs and
> ffs.
> 
EXT2FS will initially have the hooks for quotas, but I am not sure that
I'll be testing that feature soon.  It is slower than UFS mostly because the
small block size really exercises the performance of the read/write
loop.  It'll perform approx the same as it does on Linux, even though
it uses our new clustering code.  The EXT2FS code is mostly a derivative
of the UFS code, but a couple of the files are copylefted :-(.  I did not
do the *BSD EXT2FS code, but Godmar Back who works on Lites did.  THANK
YOU GODMAR!!!!  I simply ported/adapted it to FreeBSD.

John
dyson@freebsd.org