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e2fslibs for ext2fs?


From: Robert Millan
Subject: e2fslibs for ext2fs?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:23:49 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.4i

Hi there,

I recently came across the "e2tools" [1] package which is basicaly like
"mtools" but for ext2. (btw I even made a Debian package [2] which is now used
by GRUB to produce these nice GRUB rescue floppies automagicaly [3])

The interesting point for the Hurd is that e2tools uses library calls in
e2fslibs to access the underlying ext2 filesystem. I don't have much clue
with filesystem implementation so this might sound silly; Would it be
feasible to rewrite the ext2fs server for using e2fslibs?

At a fast glance, I can see interesting calls like:

 ext2fs_mkdir
 ext2fs_file_open
 ext2fs_file_get_size
 ext2fs_file_lseek
 ext2fs_file_read

It'd probably be that e2fslibs brings ext3 support too..

[1] http://home.earthlink.net/~k_sheff/sw/e2tools/index.html
[2] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/e2tools.html
[3] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/grub-disk.html

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)




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