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- Subject: [ANNOUNCE] System V filesystem
-
- Sysvfs is an implementation of the System V and Coherent and Xenix
- filesystems for Linux. It grew out of separate filesystem implementations
-
- Xenix FS Doug Evans <dje@cygnus.com> June 1992
- SystemV FS Paul B. Monday <pmonday@eecs.wsu.edu> March-June 1993
- Coherent FS B. Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> June 1993
-
- and was merged together in July 1993.
-
- This is version alpha 5.
-
- To install:
- * You need Linux 0.99.10 or newer.
- * Go to /usr/src/linux, unpack the tar file there, and patch the Linux source:
- patch -p1 < sysvfs.cdif
- To build the Linux kernel with the patches:
- make config
- make depend
- make
- * To mount a disk or a partition, use
- mount [-r] -t sysv device mountpoint
- The file system type names
- -t sysv
- -t xenix
- -t coherent
- may be used interchangeably, but the last two will eventually disappear.
-
- Bugs in the present implementation:
- - Coherent FS:
- - The "free list interleave" n:m is currently ignored.
- - Only file systems with no filesystem name and no pack name are recognized.
- (See Coherent "man mkfs" for a description of these features.)
- - SystemV Release 2 FS:
- The superblock is only searched in the blocks 9, 15, 18, which corresponds
- to the beginning of track 1 on floppy disks. No support for this FS on hard
- disk yet.
-
-
- Bruno Haible
- <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
-