On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:27:02AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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. As long as there are people using it, we'll keep supporting it. If we could drop support for HURD-specific inode fields, it would clean up a somewhat annoying union in the filesystem data structures, but that's a minor point. Something that *would* be good would be to have a volunteer periodically check to make sure that the tip of the "maint" and "master" branches of e2fsprogs builds and passes the regression test suite on Hurd. This may be somewhat happenning with the GNU/Hurd Debian project, since the latest Debian version of e2fsprogs is 1.40.2, and I assume (although I don't know for sure) that the Debian GNU/Hurd port is tracking Debian unstable, so if there were anything embarassing, I would have gotten a complaint. Still, it would be good to explicitly run the regression test suite to make sure things are working correctly --- and if not, to send patches. This is just to make sure e2fsprogs is working fine for the Hurd, of course; it's not like I would drop support if you can't find a volunteer to do this, but at the moment we do no testing on Hurd and there is no guarantees that a particular new release will work on the Hurd because none of the active developers have a Hurd box. Regards, - Ted - 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
