Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 11:29:06 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> To: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Maxime Henrion <mhenrion@cybercable.fr>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why isnt there a ext2fs.ko ? Message-ID: <20000704112906.L68833@ywing.creative.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007030902170.3727-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>; from howardjp@glue.umd.edu on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:05:21AM -0400 References: <396085C0.15FA5203@cybercable.fr> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007030902170.3727-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000, James Howard wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I was wondering why the kernel module for ext2fs doesnt exist. I > > think this will be very useful because a lot of linux users come to > > FreeBSD and want to mount their existing linux partitions, and they have > > to recompile their kernel. This isn't a hard task, but it's a bit > > disappointing for new users. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=14217 > > But it doesn't seem to compile with FreeBSD-current anymore. Give me a > day or so and I will update it work with a newer FreeBSD. On this topic, > how would anyone feel about importing NetBSD's GPL-clean ext2fs source? If noone beats me to it, I'll look at it after I've committed the couple of things in my commit queue. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the <adrian@FreeBSD.org> rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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