| This is the implementation of the SystemV/Coherent filesystem for Linux. |
| It implements all of |
| - Xenix FS, |
| - SystemV/386 FS, |
| - Coherent FS. |
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| This is version alpha 5. |
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| To install: |
| * You need Linux 0.99.14. |
| * 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Please report any bugs and suggestions to |
| Bruno Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhde.de> or |
| Pascal Haible <haible@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de> . |
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| Bruno Haible |
| <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> |
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