> (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 -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
