From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 31 10:07:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA24917 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:07:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA24911 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalslip.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.48]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id NAA10549; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:08:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32791483.3734@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:05:07 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." Reply-To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO Filesystem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I looked around: Linux has it, itīs 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. > > However, you'd have to be a file systems person or have the right > knack for it. I tried a while ago to implement ODS Level 2 to read a > few CDROMs that I had, but punted after I realized I didn't have > enough information on the ODS format, or on the vfs interfaces (well, > and the fact that I didn't have the kind of time something like this > would take). > > Warner