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Subject: How can I get a piece of the action?!
Date: 8 Apr 1993 22:33:04 GMT
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I've had Linux running for about 6 months now and I think it's great!
Over the past 6 months, I've become fairly familiar with
it's workings and I want to contribute to the cause.
I'm not sure how though... I don't have anything to port...
I can't think of anything to write...
(By the way... I'd order a T-Shirt! (Does anyone have a gif of the logo?))
Anthony
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Subject: Things to write (was Re: How can I get a piece of the action?!)
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In article <1q2970...@spiff.seattleu.edu> aeh...@calvin.seattleu.edu
(root-bound) writes:
>I've had Linux running for about 6 months now and I think it's great!
>
>Over the past 6 months, I've become fairly familiar with
>it's workings and I want to contribute to the cause.
>I'm not sure how though... I don't have anything to port...
>I can't think of anything to write...
>
>(By the way... I'd order a T-Shirt! (Does anyone have a gif of the logo?))
>
>Anthony
What about new filesystem drivers for things like SYSV ufs/vxfs/sfs/s5
so we can access these file systems in the same way we access msdoz file
sysytems. That would be a nice start :)
(If this was done it could make a good, single disk, file system replair
floppy for other unix boxs. Could be marketed to raise money for the
development of Linux)
Just an idea
Matthew
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From: gt1...@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh)
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Subject: Re: Things to write (was Re: How can I get a piece of the action?!)
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In article <20...@dsbc.icl.co.uk> m...@dsbc.icl.co.uk (KID01) writes:
>In article <1q2970...@spiff.seattleu.edu> aeh...@calvin.seattleu.edu
>(root-bound) writes:
>>Over the past 6 months, I've become fairly familiar with
>>it's workings and I want to contribute to the cause.
>>I'm not sure how though... I don't have anything to port...
>>I can't think of anything to write...
>>
>>Anthony
>
>What about new filesystem drivers for things like SYSV ufs/vxfs/sfs/s5
>so we can access these file systems in the same way we access msdoz file
>sysytems. That would be a nice start :)
>
How about adding HPFS to that list of filesystems. I think that many
OS/2 users would love to be able acces their HPFS partitions from
linux.
Ken.
gt1...@prims.gatech.edu
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From: b...@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Things to write (was Re: How can I get a piece of the action?!)
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In article <92...@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1...@prism.gatech.EDU
(Michael Kenneth McGaugh) writes:
>In article <20...@dsbc.icl.co.uk> m...@dsbc.icl.co.uk (KID01) writes:
>>In article <1q2970...@spiff.seattleu.edu> aeh...@calvin.seattleu.edu
>>(root-bound) writes:
>>>it's workings and I want to contribute to the cause.
>>>I can't think of anything to write...
>>
>>What about new filesystem drivers for things like SYSV ufs/vxfs/sfs/s5
>
>How about adding HPFS to that list of filesystems. I think that many
HPFS is proprietary --- some information is available on it, but I don't think
it's enough to design filesystem code from.
ufs is basically BSD FFS. Since *that* issue comes up every week :-) I expect
that *someone* will port it.
S51K is a bit of a problem, because it can be 1KB (SVR2), 2KB (some SVR2, as
an option), or 4KB blocks. On the other hand, all we probably care about is
the 4K block one, because all 386 System V (R3.x) uses it: any smaller and it
can't demand-page 386 executables from their files, because a 386 page is 4KB.
You also probably want to support AFS and EAFS filesystems for all those SCO
(l)users out there. The former I could probably whack together, but we
*still* haven't gotten the go-ahead to upgrade to 3.2v4 so I have no idea how
to handle EAFS. And I expect that we're pretty much alone in that regard, so
I'd expect EAFS to be a higher priority. (Note that SCO mountable floppies,
at least in 3.2v2, are S51K, so that still may be useful... but tar is better
and works now.)
++Brandon
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Subject: Re: Things to write (was Re: How can I get a piece of the action?!)
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In article <1993Apr11.0...@kf8nh.wariat.org> b...@kf8nh.wariat.org
(Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>In article <92...@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1...@prism.gatech.EDU
>(Michael Kenneth McGaugh) writes:
>>In article <20...@dsbc.icl.co.uk> m...@dsbc.icl.co.uk (KID01) writes:
>>>In article <1q2970...@spiff.seattleu.edu> aeh...@calvin.seattleu.edu
>>>(root-bound) writes:
>>>>it's workings and I want to contribute to the cause.
>>>>I can't think of anything to write...
>>>
>>>What about new filesystem drivers for things like SYSV ufs/vxfs/sfs/s5
>>
>>How about adding HPFS to that list of filesystems. I think that many
>
>HPFS is proprietary --- some information is available on it, but I don't think
I'm currently working on implementing the sysv 386 filesystem, just
thought I'd mention it before we get duplication of effort going here.
HPFS could be implemented READ only fairly easily from what I've read.
Allocation of blocks may get hairy...it's odd enough when it's well
documented, as I've encountered...HPFS is NOT well documented.
I should be testing sysv at the end of this month and have a ROUGH draft
of a document on filesystems (focus on Linux and how it implements systems),
at the same time. My prof is heading out for the summer and this is my
MS proj so that's a fairly set date.
I would be more than willing to pass on info about the Linux fs which I've
received from various sources (linus and stacks of various unix filesystems)
At this point it would be uneditted. My doc is currently a bunch of
\section and \subsection (and \subsubsection).
(of course, i would take what i have to say with a grain of salt until data
actually comes from a sysv diskette and lands on my Linux formatted hard drive)
good luck finding a proj
pmo...@eecs.wsu.edu
ps Oh yeah...you may have to hack a little to implement HPFS... (cringe ;-)
not that I don't have my share of misstarts on a bunch of sysv stuff strewn
about my system.