Hi, I am studying the Hurd and, as an exercise, have modified the ext2fs translator and adapted it to the MINIX file system. This project is far from being finished, and, as yet, very little of the new translator does work. Large portions of code are pretty confused and shall be rewritten, on account of some deep differences between the two file systems: for instance, the directory entries are of a fixed size in MINIX, hence the directory handling routines can be simplified and rewritten in a more ``natural'' way. Of course, I will continue working at the translator, and will start in time a porting of the two utilities `mkfs.minix' and `fsck.minix' from `util-linux'. Although pretty useless now, the current version of the translator is to be found at
http://paideia.sourceforge.net/hurd-minixfs-0.01.tar.gz Thanks, Roberto Reale [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S.: I have some perplexities about the proper way, in which one should update the copyright notice. I have added a comment to each heading, to explain the the code has been modified by me, but have left unchanged the remainder, being uncertain whether I should update the copyright year too. For example, *** ext2fs/dir.c Sun Jul 20 20:16:37 2003 --- minixfs/dir.c Sun Jul 20 20:16:44 2003 *************** *** 3,8 **** --- 3,11 ---- Copyright (C) 1994,95,96,97,98,99,2000,01,02 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Converted for ext2fs by Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + Modified for the MINIX filesystem from the original for the ext2 + filesystem by Roberto Reale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at Is this correct? _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
