[Athfs-developer] Re: Details wrt documents and code

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First, AFS (AtheOS FileSystem) is the official name of the AthFS, but
the Andrew FileSystem was first in the list, so we choose another name
for the Project... what is the project about?... easy, the first goal is
to write a Linux FileSystem Kernel Module using the 2.4 kernel series
for the AtheOS File System used by AtheOS and Syllable Operating System
(I guess it will change the name to SyllableStor or something similar in
the SyllableOS). The next goal with the project is to write the
documentation about this filesystem (specs, and similar). We hope to
write some userland applications in the future to handle this FS too (as
a filecheck and format utilities for Linux and other OSes -for example,
there is not any file system integrity check system for this in Syllable
nor AtheOS-).<BR>

AFS is based on the BFS (Be File System) and it is based in a multimedia
storage file system. It has a lot of extensions to handle MIME types and
similar. We are trying to base the driver code based in the actual BeFS
Linux Kernel Module but we hope to write our own code in a very close
future.

................ Well , i got the code of Syllable. But what i inferred
from above is that its based on Be File System . So is this somewhat
different from the filesystem used by AtheOS or syllable. Are the two file
systems same or different. As in the mechanism would be the same but the
way for implementing can be different.. m i correct??

Next Stuart , said that this is a virtual filesystem.. i really dont agree
with this point as of now. Some more explanaition would make it better for
me... To quote, what Stuart has said..

Well, the AtheOS filesystem is actually a virtual filesystem, so along
with physical files & directories, there are also pipes/fifos, device
files, etc..  I'm really not the authority on this, certainly you're
welcome to ask the Syllable <http://syllable.sf.net/> development team.

Reason for not getting conviced that its actually not a VFS.. Here the case
should be like you can actually load the Atheos Filesystem on Linux
Machine. As in you can have Amoeba , QNX4.x , etc. Correct me if i m wrong
on this.

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Right now there are just a few lines and chunks of code, and I almost
finishing the documentation about some few stuff of this file system,
and yes, all the doc is been written from scratch looking in the code of
the BeFS LKM and the Syllable sourcecode.


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how about sharing the documents.. ??
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regards
udayan