9fans archive / 1997 / 04 / 37 /    prev next

From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
Subject: ext2srv (was Re: porting linux...)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:08:04 +0100 (BST)

>> 
>> Could ext2srv be an attempt at what I want, or is it just a
>> Linux compatibility tool....
>> 
>
>As far as I know (I think), Linux's ext2fs is supported by Linux, NetBSD,
>FreeBSD, and The Hurd.  So if you're running heterogeneous (sp?) freeware
>*nix's, its the next best thing to a FAT filesystem for sharing files
>between different kernels.
>
I'm using BSDI, SunOS, Solaris, OS-9000, OS-9/68K and Plan 9,
all of which do DROSS, so I guess it won't really help.

NFS helps for separate machines, but the real problem is a PC
used for Plan9, OS-9000 and BSDI. A DROSS partition is currently
the only way of moving files between them, but the brain dead
limits on file names and attibutes makes it tedious...

Thanks for the comments,
Regards,
DigbyT
-- 
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~cthulhu/