MINIX fs translator - pre-release 0.02

[Roberto Reale]

  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
rreale@iol.it


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 <miles@gnu.org>
  
+    Modified for the MINIX filesystem from the original for the ext2
+    filesystem by Roberto Reale <rreale@iol.it>.
+ 
     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?