Re: Amiga SFS file system Linux driver

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > This this is the second version of my linux Amiga Smart File System driver.
> > I've fixed some bugs, cleaned up the code and added some features.
> > 
> > On http://march.home.staszic.waw.pl/asfs/ there is a sample image of
> > AmigaSFS disk for testing, patch against the previous version and a compiled
> > module for 2.4.18 kernel (put it in "/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/fs/asfs/").
> > 
> > Now its almost full-featured, working read-only driver. :)
> > 
> > As I've written before: 
> > 
> > Any comments? Does it work on your system?
> > 
> > Could it be added to the APUS tree?
> > 
> > Is it worth trying to add this file system to official Linux kernel tree?
> > 
> > Can somebody check if it works on Linux/m68k and other "strange" linux
> > systems?
> 
> I havent yet tested this (my current partitions are PFS3) but great job!!
> 
> I dont see why it cant be added to the APUS tree....as it currently
> stands it can be added under the filesystems menu as an EXPERIMENTAL
> - which is the usual way of doing things. for 68k stuff, the 68k folks are 
> the ones to talk to...i'm sure Geert would like someone to talk to :-)

It applied to the current Linux/m68k 2.4.21 with only one minor reject, and it
compiles fine on m68k (both builtin and modular), so I checked it in in
Linux/m68k CVS:

| Reply-To: lin...@li...
| To: lin...@li...
| Subject: CVS Update: linux (branch: m68k-2_4)
| 
| Log message:
| Add experimental read-only support for the Amiga SFS (SmartFileSystem), from
| Marek Szyprowski <ma...@st...> on linux-apus-devel
| 
| 
| Modified files:
|     linux/Documentation/filesystems:
| 	00-INDEX 
|     linux/Documentation:
| 	Configure.help 
|     linux/fs:
| 	Config.in Makefile 
|     linux/include/linux:
| 	fs.h 
| Added files:
|     linux/Documentation/filesystems:
| 	asfs.txt 
|     linux/include/linux:
| 	asfs_fs.h asfs_fs_i.h asfs_fs_sb.h 
|     linux/fs/asfs:
| 	Makefile inode.c 

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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