V7 filesystem work

[Mike Allison]

Yeah, I'm interested.  Can you write up what changes the linux port entailed???

-Mike


At 07:10 PM 2/20/99 +0100, g4klx at g4klx.demon.co.uk wrote:
>Hello All
>
>A couple of weeks ago I hacked the program v7 from the bostic_tools to
>work under all sorts of different Unix versions. It worked great and
>allowed me to snoop around the V7 file system images from native Linux.
>Anyone who wants a copy can send me an e-mail.
>
>Anyway I had a few hours spare today, and decided to try adding the V7
>filesystem to the Linux kernel. Results so far are encouraging:
>
>
>g4klx:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /mnt
>total 333
>drwxrwxrwx   7 root     root          224 Sep 22  1988 .
>drwxr-xr-x  19 root     root         1024 Feb 14 11:55 ..
>drwxrwxr-x   2 3        3            2512 Sep 22  1988 bin
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 3        3            8986 Jun  8  1979 boot
>drwxrwxr-x   2 3        3             160 Sep 22  1988 dev
>drwxrwxr-x   2 3        3             336 Sep 22  1988 etc
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 daemon   daemon      53302 Jun  8  1979 hphtunix
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 daemon   daemon      52850 Jun  8  1979 hptmunix
>drwxrwxr-x   2 3        3             192 Sep 22  1988 lib
>drwxrwxr-x   2 root     lp             96 Sep 22  1988 mdec
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     daemon      50990 Jun  8  1979 rkunix
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     daemon      51982 Jun  8  1979 rl2unix
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 daemon   daemon      51790 Jun  8  1979 rphtunix
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 daemon   daemon      51274 Jun  8  1979 rptmunix
>g4klx:/usr/src/linux# df
>Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/hda1            3031184 1920771   953665     67%   /
>/dev/loop0              1919    1877       42     98%   /mnt
>g4klx:/usr/src/linux#
>
>
>I am using the loop block device to allow me to mount a file as a block
>device, this saves me having to add a new partition to my disc. There
>should be no reason why it won't work with a true disc partition. The V7
>filesystem under Linux is read/write.
>
>Anyone interested ?
>
>Jonathan
>
>
>
>


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