From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 31 14:29:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13001 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:29:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12990 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:29:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA06368 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.org); Thu, 31 Oct 1996 23:27:55 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA02245; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:32:16 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199610312132.WAA02245@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: SCO Filesystem To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:32:16 +0100 (MET) Cc: imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <32791483.3734@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni S." at Oct 31, 96 01:05:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Pedro Giffuni S. wrote... > I looked around: > Linux has it, it4s called "sysv-fs" and it can be used to mount sco, > coherent and xenix, but they admit the last two will disappear > eventually. Any volunteers? > > Pedro. > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message > > > > pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co writes: > > : What about an SCO filesystem? I think there is a Linux code, and "their > > : hardware" is well known. It would be nice to mount it and directly execute > > : programs. > > > > I think the SCO file systems are even well documented somewhere. I've > > been told (and have no way to confirm) that they are, as far as disk > > formats go, the stock SYSV R3 stuff. It shouldn't be overly difficult > > to implement something on FreeBSD. SCO is not stock SYSV R3. They added stuff like bitmaps (?) for free list admin etc. So, it's based on SysV R3 but there have been a number of improvements made by SCO. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------