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Subject: Re: EXT2FS code from -current to -stable
In-Reply-To: <199710071333.XAA21776@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 7, 97 11:33:59 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
> >Now we are talking about ext2fs, what about the version that OpenBSD
> >has, its GPL free (yeah!), do they have a fix for this.
> 
> Do you mean the NetBSD version? :-)  It should never have had this bug,

Sorry just saw it in OpenBSD (they are kind of the same to me anyways)

> since the bug is caused by semantic mismatch between BSD buffer handling
> and vestiges of Linux buffer handling in the GPL'ed part (the Linux and
> FreeBSD versions of ext2fs want to hang on to buffers for bitmaps, but
> BSD wants buffers to be released as soon as possible).
> 
> I was waiting for the Lite2 merge, but that seems to have been done a
> few months ago, at least in the NetBSD version.

So, should we go for it ?? I might find a couple of spare hours to do it..


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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
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