24 Feb
2021
24 Feb
'21
11:40 p.m.
arnold(a)skeeve.com writes:
Jay Logue via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
NetBSD has v7fs which claims to be able to deal with the 7th Edition
filesystem.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
... The result is a project I call retro-fuse,
which is now up on github
for anyone to enjoy (https://github.com/jaylogue/retro-fuse).
Very cool!
Currently, retro-fuse only works on linux. But
once I get access to my
mac again in a couple weeks, I'll port it to MacOS as well. I also hope
to expand it to support other filesystems as well, such as v7 or the
early BSDs, but we'll see when that happens.
I note that Linux already has the 'sysv' kernel module which supports
System V short-filename file systems. Enhancing that for V7 and early
BSD may be a faster route to having such file system images be mountable.
(But perhaps less fun than a FUSE filesystem that uses original Unix code.)
An enhanced version of the sysv kernel module that supports filesystems
from the AT&T Unix PC / 3B1 is available at
https://github.com/dgesswein/s4-3b1-pc7300.
Arnold