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MINIX fs translator - pre-release 0.02
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Roberto Reale |
Subject: |
MINIX fs translator - pre-release 0.02 |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:00:32 +0200 |
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Hi,
I have made a new pre-release (0.02) of my translator for the MINIX
file system (actually a modified version of the Ext2 translator).
As several major bugs have been fixed, especially in the directory-
handling code, the new release should work far better than the previous
one, although it is still very unstable and crash-prone.
Many things need to be done; among them (from the README):
o rewriting such parts as are inherent to the Ext2 file system and only
by dint of ugly botch-works have been adapted to the MINIX fs;
o polishing the code and commenting it in a more orderly manner (many
functions have comments which are but relics of the Ext2 code);
o rewriting the Makefile;
o re-implementing better inode- and zone-allocation policies (in simplifying
the algorithms used by the Ext2 translator, I made them probably less
efficient);
o devising a good solution to the problem of conciliating the limitations
of the MINIX file system with the needs of the GNU OS, without hindering
compatibility with other environments;
o writing some documentation on the MINIX file system itself;
o developing a simple test suite.
The code of the translator is available at
http://paideia.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/paideia/hurd-minixfs-0.02.tar.gz?download
Thanks,
Roberto Reale
rreale@iol.it
P.S.: I am compelled to ask again a question which I think is of some
consequence, to wit:
I have some perplexities about the proper way, in which one should
update the copyright notice. I have added a comment to each heading, to
explain the the code has been modified by me, but have left unchanged the
remainder, being uncertain whether I should update the copyright year too.
For example,
*** ext2fs/dir.c Sun Jul 20 20:16:37 2003
--- minixfs/dir.c Sun Jul 20 20:16:44 2003
***************
*** 3,8 ****
--- 3,11 ----
Copyright (C) 1994,95,96,97,98,99,2000,01,02 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Converted for ext2fs by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
+ Modified for the MINIX filesystem from the original for the ext2
+ filesystem by Roberto Reale <rreale@iol.it>.
+
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at
Is this correct?
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