Hi, I have made a new pre-release (0.02) of my translator for the MINIX file system (actually a modified version of the Ext2 translator). As several major bugs have been fixed, especially in the directory- handling code, the new release should work far better than the previous one, although it is still very unstable and crash-prone. Many things need to be done; among them (from the README):
o rewriting such parts as are inherent to the Ext2 file system and only by dint of ugly botch-works have been adapted to the MINIX fs; o polishing the code and commenting it in a more orderly manner (many functions have comments which are but relics of the Ext2 code); o rewriting the Makefile; o re-implementing better inode- and zone-allocation policies (in simplifying the algorithms used by the Ext2 translator, I made them probably less efficient); o devising a good solution to the problem of conciliating the limitations of the MINIX file system with the needs of the GNU OS, without hindering compatibility with other environments; o writing some documentation on the MINIX file system itself; o developing a simple test suite. The code of the translator is available at http://paideia.sourceforge.net/index.html http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/paideia/hurd-minixfs-0.02.tar.gz?download Thanks, Roberto Reale [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S.: I am compelled to ask again a question which I think is of some consequence, to wit: 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
