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"Roberto Reale" <rreale@iol.it> writes:

Hi,

I'm really sorry about the late reply. (Thanks for reminding me
Alfred!)

>   I've made a new release (0.03) of the MINIX fs translator at which
> I'm working (a modified version of the Ext2 translator, actually).  It
> still lacks good stability, yet some very nasty bugs (and very silly
> ones, too, which I myself introduced during the process of adapting
> the Ext2 code) have been fixed and, although very fitfully, it appears
> to work.

Did you manage to fix those bugs you spoke about and are you still
interested in making this translator to work properly?

>   As one would expect of an alpha release, the code still needs a good
> deal of polishing and revising.  If you would like to cast a glance at
> it, and perhaps also try it, I shall be glad to receive suggestions,
> criticism and especially bug reports.
> 
>   The translator is available at
> 
> http://paideia.sourceforge.net/index.html
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/paideia/hurd-minixfs-0.03.tar.gz?download

Unfortunately I'm quite busy at the moment.  I can have a look at your
code in a about a month.  If one of the Hurd maintainers wants to
include minixfs in the Hurd I can help with this.

I also wrote an (unreleased, unfinished) minixfs implementation, we
can have a look which one of these two is the best and use that.

Marcus, what do you think?

Thanks,
Marco