1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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4 BeOS filesystem for Linux
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6
7 Document last updated: Dec 6, 2001
8
9 Warning
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11 Make sure you understand that this is alpha so
12 implementation is neither complete nor well-te
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14 I DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY POSSIBLE
15
16 License
17 =======
18 This software is covered by the GNU General Pu
19 See the file COPYING for the complete text of
20 Or the GNU website: <http://www.gnu.org/licens
21
22 Author
23 ======
24 The largest part of the code written by Will D<
25 He has been working on the code since Aug 13,
26 details.
27
28 Original Author: Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net
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30 His original code can still be found at:
31 <http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/>
32
33 Does anyone know of a more current email addre
34 respond to the address given above...
35
36 This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer.
37
38 What is this Driver?
39 ====================
40 This module implements the native filesystem o
41 for the linux 2.4.1 and later kernels. Current
42 implementation.
43
44 Which is it, BFS or BEFS?
45 =========================
46 Be, Inc said, "BeOS Filesystem is officially c
47 But Unixware Boot Filesystem is called bfs, to
48 the kernel. Because of this naming conflict, o
49 filesystem is called befs.
50
51 How to Install
52 ==============
53 step 1. Install the BeFS patch into the sour
54
55 Apply the patchfile to your kernel source tree
56 Assuming that your kernel source is in /foo/ba
57 is called patch-befs-xxx, you would do the fol
58
59 cd /foo/bar/linux
60 patch -p1 < /path/to/patch-befs-xxx
61
62 if the patching step fails (i.e. there are rej
63 figure it out yourself (it shouldn't be hard),
64 (Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>) for help.
65
66 step 2. Configuration & make kernel
67
68 The linux kernel has many compile-time options
69 scope of this document. I suggest the Kernel-H
70 reference on this topic. http://www.linuxdocs.
71
72 However, to use the BeFS module, you must enab
73
74 cd /foo/bar/linux
75 make menuconfig (or xconfig)
76
77 The BeFS module is not a standard part of the
78 enable support for experimental code under the
79
80 Then, under the "Filesystems" menu will be an
81 filesystem (experimental)", or something like
82 (it is fine to make it a module).
83
84 Save your kernel configuration and then build
85
86 step 3. Install
87
88 See the kernel howto <http://www.linux.com/how
89 instructions on this critical step.
90
91 Using BFS
92 =========
93 To use the BeOS filesystem, use filesystem typ
94
95 ex::
96
97 mount -t befs /dev/fd0 /beos
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99 Mount Options
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102 ============= ===============================
103 uid=nnn All files in the partition will
104 gid=nnn All files in the partition will
105 iocharset=xxx Use xxx as the name of the NLS
106 debug The driver will output debuggin
107 ============= ===============================
108
109 How to Get Latest Version
110 =========================
111
112 The latest version is currently available at:
113 <http://befs-driver.sourceforge.net/>
114
115 Any Known Bugs?
116 ===============
117 As of Jan 20, 2002:
118
119 None
120
121 Special Thanks
122 ==============
123 Dominic Giampalo ... Writing "Practical file s
124
125 Hiroyuki Yamada ... Testing LinuxPPC.
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