[TUHS] retro-fuse project

[Brad Spencer]

arnold at skeeve.com writes:

> Jay Logue via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> ... 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


NetBSD has v7fs which claims to be able to deal with the 7th Edition
filesystem.



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