TESTERS WANTED: e2fsprogs port update

[Matthias Andree]

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Hello,

the e2fsprogs port has not been looked after in a long time, and so it
does not know about ext3fs, making it impossible to mount ext3fs file
systems under FreeBSD that need journal recovery without booting Linux.

I have updated the port to the current BK state of e2fsprogs, hacked the
BK version of e2fsprogs to support FreeBSD and tested it a bit (e2fsck
=2D -f on my ext2 and ext3 file systems), successfully, on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT
and 4-STABLE, either one checked out after 2003-12-27.

I need testers of the new port, particularly from FreeBSD versions that
are not bleeding edge and from non-i386 architectures.

The port is available at http://mandree.home.pages.de/freebsd/e2fsprogs/
installation instructions are also at that page.

You'll have 5 kB of direct download for the shar files and 3.2 MB of
indirect downloads (when typing "make fetch" from the new port
directory) for the tarball and patch.

I have sent off the patches to the upstream maintainer, Theodore Y. Ts'o,
but no current upstream release with usable FreeBSD exists at the time
of this writing.

Your feedback will be needed to convince the upstream maintainer to take
the FreeBSD patches.

Reference: the e2fsprogs home pages is at http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Matthias Andree

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