BeOS filesystem for Linux 1999-11-06 WARNING ======= Make sure you understand that this is alpha software. This means that the implementation is neither complete nor well-tested. So using this driver, by own risk. WHAT'S THIS DRIVER ================== This module is BeOS filesystem (using filesystem of BeOS operating system) driver for Linux 2.3.25 later. If you want to use on 2.2.x kernel, please use old version. Wich BFS or BEFS ================ Be, Inc said, "BeOS filesystem is called BFS by official, but doesn't called BeFS". But Unixware boot filesystem is called bfs, too. iSince conflict occur, on Linux, BeOS filesystem is befs. HOW TO INSTALL ============== step 1. Install sources code to source code tree of linux. i.e. cd /usr/src/linux tar ~/befs-19991106.tar.gz patch -p1 < linux-2.3.x.patch step 2. Configuretion & make kernel i.e. make config make dep; make clean make bzImage make modules Note that at 'BeOS Filesystem support', you should answer y(es) ori m(odule). If you want to use BeOS filesystem of other platforms , you should answer y(es) aginst 'BeOS filesystem of other platforms support'. step 3. Install i.e. cp /usr/src/arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz make modules_install USING BFS ========= To use the BeOS filesystem, use filesystem type 'befs'. ex) mount -t befs -o type=x86,iocharset=iso8859-1 /dev/fd0 /beos MOUNT OPTIONS ============= uid=nnn All files in the partition will be owned by user id nnn. gid=nnn All files in the partition will be in group nnn. type=nnn Set filesystem type. nnn is x86 or ppc. Default value is platform depends (linux-x86 is x86, linux-ppc is ppc). iocharset=nnn charactor-set. But not support DBCS. KNOWLEDGE ISSUE =============== o Current implement supports read-only. HOW TO GET LASTEST VERSION ========================== The source and more information can be found in http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/ SPECIAL THANKS ============== Dominic Giampalo ... Writing "Practical file system design with Be file system" Hiroyuki Yamada ... Testing LinuxPPC. AUTHOR ====== Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>