Re: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:28:48 +0200


On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 01:58:15PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> > "cp" is your friend. Do it once, and be over with it.
>
> And when a new kernel defines some new magic numbers, off we go and
> copy/edit or merge/edit. Finger trouble will likely result in
> duplicate defines or missing defines or an assortment of both.

More trouble with the architecture specific stuff in asm/. Many
packages that actually aren't architecture dependant would have
to include copies of such headers. Add the fact that for most
architectures the sources haven't yet fully integrated back into
Linus sources. Happy debugging.

Ralf

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