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Subject: MINIX fs translator - pre-release 0.02

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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

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

***************

*** 3,8 ****

Copyright (C) 1994,95,96,97,98,99,2000,01,02 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Converted for ext2fs by Miles Bader <[email protected]>

+ Modified for the MINIX filesystem from the original for the ext2

+ filesystem by Roberto Reale <[email protected]>.

+

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?