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From: dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: what is the status of porting ext2 fs to FreeBSD?
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References: <oviovx9xf.fsf@vapor.Franz.COM> <47rirf$sq8@xymox.dsw.com> <47tofp$kvp@park.uvsc.edu> <oag6575zo.fsf@vapor.franz.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 18:22:37 GMT
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In article <oag6575zo.fsf@vapor.franz.com>,
Kevin Layer <layer@Franz.COM> wrote:
>In article <47tofp$kvp@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>
>   2)	It's already in the -current source tree.  If you SUP
>	   -current, then you have it on your machine now.
>
>Does this mean it'll be in 2.1R?  A previous poster said 2.2.
>

It cannot be as the deadline for 2.1R is long past...  It should not
be too difficult to back-port though.  The hardest part of the port
was to make it work with the merged VM/Buffer cache (about 40 lines
of code), and that scheme is pretty much the same in 2.1R and 2.2-current.

John
dyson@freebsd.org