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e2fslibs for ext2fs?
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
e2fslibs for ext2fs? |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:23:49 +0000 |
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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)
- e2fslibs for ext2fs?,
Robert Millan <=