Hi there, I recently came across the "e2tools" [1] package which is basicaly like "mtools" but for ext2. (btw I even made a Debian package [2] which is now used by GRUB to produce these nice GRUB rescue floppies automagicaly [3])
The interesting point for the Hurd is that e2tools uses library calls in e2fslibs to access the underlying ext2 filesystem. I don't have much clue with filesystem implementation so this might sound silly; Would it be feasible to rewrite the ext2fs server for using e2fslibs? At a fast glance, I can see interesting calls like: ext2fs_mkdir ext2fs_file_open ext2fs_file_get_size ext2fs_file_lseek ext2fs_file_read It'd probably be that e2fslibs brings ext3 support too.. [1] http://home.earthlink.net/~k_sheff/sw/e2tools/index.html [2] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/e2tools.html [3] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/grub-disk.html -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion) _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
