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#! rnews 1360 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sumner+ From: G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Ext2fs support for NetBSD 1.2 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 17:06:22 -0500 Organization: Sophomore, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <0mVE1S200YUe0CLwA0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <55sptk$qsh@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <SOUVA.96Nov8160341@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> <5611o9$nki@news.bayarea.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <5611o9$nki@news.bayarea.net> thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) writes: > > Last time I checked, ext2fs code used some i386 asm for some stuff... > > That would probably be easy to fix :-) The Linux source tree includes working versions of ext2fs for the i386, Alpha, Sparc, 68k, and other processors. Of course, it's GPL'd, so look at your own risk. The 2.1 (development) tree might be a better place to look, since it's done away with the segment.h garbage. I think 2.1.7 is the current version. (Yes, Linux is actually pretty portable these days, thanks in part to funding from DEC.) Cordially, Sumner