hi, there!

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:05:45PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:

> > > > > Portions of the ext2fs source are covered by the GPL.  You
> > > > > need to rebuild the kernel with "option EXT2FS".  The
> > > > > FreeBSD cannot create a ext2fs.ko and comply with the GPL.
> > > > 
> > > > This is weird.
> > > > Builting it as part of kernel is ok, but separate, as a module
> > > > isn't.
> > > 
> > > IIRC NetBSD has BSD-copyrighted ext2fs implementation
> > 
> > Closely tied to their VFS implementation, which is different, of course,
> > last I heard it was a fairly heavy task to port it, but something a lot
> > of people would like to see.
> 
> Does it work any better/worse than FreeBSD's implementation?

I've heard that their implementation is more stable and bug-free.
Just a speculation though. Never had a time to look at it.

/fjoe


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