From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ex2fssrv?? From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:25:17 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3a9944aa-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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