Amiga SFS file system Linux driver

[Marek S. <ma...@st...>]

Hi!

I had some time and I wrote a linux driver for Amiga SFS (SmartFileSystem).
I named it asfs file system. It is a very simple read-only driver, but 
IT WORKS! Now everybody could be able to read their data from SFS 
partitions!

This patch is against 2.4.18 apus tree (last working on my system), but can
be also applied on other trees. I also checked it on my x86 laptop - 2.4.20
tree from kernel.org.

In a few days I will prepare a patch against 2.2.10 apus tree.

Sorry for some debugging mess in the source, but this ISN'T a final version
of it. I decided to post it here, because it works quite well and is almost
finished.

The only problem with this driver is that all files listed by "ls" have
"question mark" near the permission. I think that I forgot to set-up
something, but can't figure out what is missing. On
http://march.home.staszic.waw.pl/asfs/ there is a sample image of AmigaSFS
disk. 

Besides that everything is okay and files can be read without problems,
even on little endian system like x86.

On that page there is also a compiled module for Linux/APUS. Put it in
/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/fs/asfs/

Any comments? Does it work on your system?

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?

Regards
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