Re: UnixFS

Dear Gavan,

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:32:53PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> It appears that UnixFS is badly broken with the newer ffs stuff.
> 
> UnixFS is Really Really useful, as it allows NetBSD to be booted from
> /netbsd, and for files to be read from the RISC OS side. Without it, we
> have no way on a standalone box to get a new kernel onto the RISC OS side
> to boot it.
> 
> We don't have the source for UnixFS.

Thats a big bummer indeed... i looked for it when i was building the 
bootloader but to no avail :(

> Does anybody have time to work on putting enough libsa code into a RISC OS
> module to allow read-only access to a ffs partition?

My effective time is limited but i'll see if i can get some energy*time to 
look at it. Maybe integrating FFS reading into the bootloader can be a 
start... 

Cheers,
Reinoud