Entropy Patch with Linebreaks

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm sorry to keep reposting this, but brainmg was good enough to point out one GCS violation I overlooked, namely the Ctrl-L's which were removed by accident. If anyone notices anything else, please email or get me on IRC. Michael -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: Entropy Patch with Linebreaks

2007-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Michael Casadevall, le Sat 11 Aug 2007 23:03:37 -0400, a écrit : > --- device/blkio.c25 Feb 1997 21:28:13 - 1.1.1.1 > +++ device/blkio.c12 Aug 2007 06:35:59 - > @@ -149,6 +151,10 @@ > do { > prev = next; > next = prev->io_next; > +#ifdef MACH_ENTR

Re: Channel sessions

2007-08-12 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:57:36PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > I was writing a reply to your message, trying to sort out this > confusing subject, when it suddenly realized what the source of this > confusion. > > I have considered channels to be a entity corresponding to a > transla

Re: Entropy Patch with Linebreaks

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Aug 12, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Michael Casadevall, le Sat 11 Aug 2007 23:03:37 -0400, a écrit : --- device/blkio.c 25 Feb 1997 21:28:13 - 1.1.1.1 +++ device/blkio.c 12 Aug 2007 06:35:59 - @@ -149,6 +151,10 @@ do { prev = next; next

Re: Entropy Patch with Linebreaks

2007-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Michael Casadevall, le Sun 12 Aug 2007 16:44:59 -0400, a écrit : > >>@@ -149,6 +151,10 @@ > >> do { > >> prev = next; > >> next = prev->io_next; > >>+#ifdef MACH_ENTROPY > >>+/* Let's grab the cylinder numbers for entropy. */ > >>+entropy_putdata (prev, siz

Future of ext2 support in the Hurd?

2007-08-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi there, There was recent discussion of taking out support for "dead" OS's and features in e2fsprogs, such as fragmentation, support for the Masix OS and Hurd. So in the interests of doing some research to see whether or not Hurd was really completely dead, or just "mostly dead" (to in the P

Re: Future of ext2 support in the Hurd?

2007-08-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi Theodore, At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:40:00 -0400, "Theodore Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was recent discussion of taking out support for "dead" OS's and > features in e2fsprogs, such as fragmentation, support for the Masix > OS and Hurd. So in the interests of doing some research t

Re: Future of ext2 support in the Hurd?

2007-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Theodore Ts'o, le Sun 12 Aug 2007 17:40:00 -0400, a écrit : > no one touched the ext2 code in two years, Yes, because the current implementation roughly does its job, so I guess nobody felt brave enough to touch it. Support for >2GB filesystems was developped and is used in Debian GNU/Hurd as a p

Re: Future of ext2 support in the Hurd?

2007-08-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:40:00 -0400, "Theodore Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is definitely still code in the ext2 > filesystem translator which is GPLv2 only, since it is derived from > Linux. And as we all know, GPLv2 and GPLv3 code are licensing > incompatible, and that the FSF has cla

Re: Future of ext2 support in the Hurd?

2007-08-12 Thread Roland McGrath
The license issues are not directly apropos to the main subject of cooperation on supporting a particular disk format, so I'll leave that aside. Let us discuss the future of the EXT2_OS_HURD variant of ext2 format. Indeed some people do use the Hurd and they all do rely on the EXT2_OS_HURD format