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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: what is the status of porting ext2 fs to FreeBSD?
Date: 9 Nov 1995 20:31:53 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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pete@inquo.net (Pete Kruckenberg) wrote:
] Kevin Layer (layer@Franz.COM) wrote:
] : I've heard the Linux ext2 filesystem is being ported to FreeBSD, but I
] : haven't heard any details. Is it true? If so, I'd love to hear some
] : more details...
]
] I'm not doing it, but I have seen some stuff about it on this channel.
] Ext2 is being ported for FreeBSD 2.2, and will be everything it is for
] Linux, plus it'll support filesystem quotas and some other cool stuff.
] I'd suspect that once it's ported, someone will be porting the new
] features back to Linux.
]
] Anyone know more?
1) It's based on the MACH ext2fs code.
2) It's already in the -current source tree. If you SUP
-current, then you have it on your machine now.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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