Hi Theodore, At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:40:00 -0400, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > There was recent discussion of taking out support for "dead" OS's and > features in e2fsprogs, such as fragmentation, support for the Masix > OS.... and Hurd. So in the interests of doing some research to see > whether or not Hurd was really completely dead, or just "mostly dead" > (to in the Princess Bride sense :-), I did some digging, and found this > list. Thanks for getting in contact with us! > There is an awful lot of out-of-date and extremely cobwebby pages out > there on the web, but it looks like even there are some people working > on it. Am I right in my assumption that no one even though no one > touched the ext2 code in two years, with the bulk of the files in CVS > not having been touched in seven years, that there are still people > using the ext2 filesystem in Hurd? Yes. It's our primary filesystem, and if you pulled support for the Hurd we would be forced to create and maintain a fork. > One question which is going to be interesting from my perspective is > that of GPLv2 licensing. I will address this in a second message. > If the Hurd project is planning on dropping the ext2 filesystem, please > let me and the ext4 developers know, since then we can clean up the > special case code in e2fsprogs to support the Hurd. We have no intention to drop support for it. In fact, we are very happy with it. How much are we a burden for you? If it helps, we can probably arrange it so that a volunteer cooperates with you if work is involved in keeping the support active. Thanks, Marcus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
