Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:55:56 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | [NEW] BFS for Linux |
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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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