Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:24:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011215102442.E85108@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3C1A09BB.DEBCB854@mindspring.com> References: <20011214141518.E73243@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <3C1A09BB.DEBCB854@mindspring.com>
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On Friday, 14 December 2001 at 6:16:27 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Since JFS has come up again... Are there any papers that explain how >> to integrate a new filesystem into FreeBSD? The relevant chapter in >> the FreeBSD Developers' Handbook (16) is a bit terse :-). >> >> Specifically, I'm looking at being able to read/write 2BSD filesystems >> on my FreeBSD machines. > > Do you have small images of this FS, as well as header files that > are redistributable (e.g. BSD license) and/or code? > > If you have the tools sources (e.g. "newfs", "fsck", etc.), this would > be useful, as well, since I could vnconfig a device and recreate an > empty FS image with native tools (self hosted), as well. I've got everything here, but it sounds like Jeremy does too. Depending on the value of 2, this is either the old 6th edition file system or an early variant of UFS; either's not difficult. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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