Re: XFree86 3.3.6-10
> (2) What exactly is oskit mach? If i understand correctly it is a
> derivative of gnumach that was taken up by U. of Utah and uses the 2.2
> linux device drivers? Is that all or is there more to it??
oskit-mach was started by Roland about a year ago. He took oskit,
a project at the University of Utah which attempts to make building
operating systems easier by providing a collection of independent
components to abstract the hardware, and ripped the ``Mach'' code out of
gnumach and stuck them together. The University of Utah has nothing to
do with oskit-mach.
> (3) Most of my important files under linux are in partitions formatted
> with reiserfs. I have been using reiserfs since Jan 2000. I dont
> have any free partitions either on my disk. It would be nice if I
> could mount these partitions under hurd. And it would be nice for
> hurd to have a journaling fs. So I have the foll. qns.
>
> (a) How difficult would it be to create a hurd transalator for
> reiserfs? I am not a kernel hacker, I do know C, but only
> as an applications programmer. I am on the reiserfs list. I
> can ask someone for help there too. Pointers to information
> would be appreciated.
About as difficult as creating the ext2fs translator. Take a look at that
code (in the hurd at subversions.gnu.org).
> (b) Would it be easier to make the driver under oskit-mach??
First, filesystems are not drivers, they are translators (read: userspace
programs). Second, translators are microkernel independent: if the hurd
runs on it, it should not matter to the translator.
> (c) Would any of you be interested in doing this, or has
> someone already done this?
I have not heard of anyone working on this, however, I could be wrong.
Best regards,
-Neal
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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu
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