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Subject[NEW] BFS for Linux
Yesterday I needed for some obscure reason access
from Linux to a bfs filesystem (/stand) on a SCO
Unixware 7 system.

Looking whether there was a bfs implementation already
I only found questions or negations, like

From Scott G. Hall (1999/05/07):
> The kernels (in /stand) are in a bfs type filesystem.
> Most BSD & Linux boxes won't know how to mount it
> because they don't have a driver for it.

From Jingke Li (1999/09/02):
> I'd like to know ways for Linux to access SCO Unixware's
> vxfs, ufs, sfs, bfs, and/or s5 file systems.

So, I wrote something and it works for me.
Find it in ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/aeb/bfsmod.c
or in ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/aeb/

Note that this was written without specs of the fs
and with only one specimen of such a fs at hand.
If anybody has more information about the structure
of the superblock or inodes, I'd like to hear.

By the way, this is read-only only.
Making it read-write would be an easy exercise.

Andries - aeb@cwi.nl


P.S. This is not the BeFS of BeOS.

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