Re: Status of affs support in the kernel and affstools

I have found amitools from Christian Vogelgsang to be a good tool for
creating and manipulating affs.

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 11:47 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I was wondering what the current status of the affs driver in the kernel
> is,
> did it receive the fixes that Michael(?) was working on? I vaguely remember
> there were some issues with larger filesystems or so and that someone was
> working on fixing these issues.
>
> Also, I noticed that Roman Zippel actually created an affstools package [1]
> back in the day and I wonder whether anyone has any experience with it. In
> particular, I'm wondering what »different mkfs.affs« Artem Bityutskiy is
> talking about here [2]. Is there an alternative tool for creating and
> checking
> affs filesystems?
>
> If we package it for Debian, it would be possible to create affs partitions
> from debian-installer which would be useful for anyone wanting to install
> Debian on an Amiga without a Workbench installation on the harddisk.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
> > [1] https://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/affstools-0.1a.tar.gz
> > [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-m68k&m=133888043312812&w=2
>
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