Re: [9fans] ex2fssrv??

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

> I recall a service like dossrv for Linux ext2fs system but
> could not locate it in source tree?

There was one written by someone in France
more than a few years ago.  I'm not sure how well it ever
worked.  I used it for the third edition release
installer but had to fix a bug in the ext2 directory
entry parser.  Ext2srv was old even then.  I can only
assume that the ext2 format had changed since the
program was written.  That scared me enough that
I changed ext2srv to open the disk in read-only mode
(it was only used to read the install's .9gz archive).

It has never been in /sys/src, though in the third
edition it was in /sys/lib/pcdist/cmd, with all the
other install-specific programs.  I didn't bother
updating to speak 9P2000 (fourth edition), so now not
even the installer uses it.

This comes up about once a year.
If someone wanted to do the work of keeping
it up to date, I get the impression that there are
a few people on the list who would find it useful.

Then again, ext3 will be all the rage soon enough.

Russ