[Coco] Linux RBF filesystem support

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Oct 20 09:27:45 EDT 2008


On Monday 20 October 2008, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, James Dessart wrote:
>> On 10/19/08, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>>> If you decide to pick-up an RBF project, it would probably be best if
>>>  it were turned into a FUSE filesystem.  That would have the benefit
>>>  of not needing to either patch new kernels or to keep-up with changing
>>>  internal kernel APIs.
>>
>> Plus it could be made to run on Mac OS X, which I think a few of us
>> use. It'd be nice to have FUSE drivers for both RS-DOS format and RBF.
>> It'd make using CoCo images so much easier. Perhaps even read-only
>> support for casette images.
>
>In general, I agree completely.  However, the RBF module seems to be
>actively maintained and was recently updated for 2.6.24+ kernels.
>
>Steve

That is in fact pretty old, Steve.  I'm running 2.6.27.2, at least 2 years 
newer.  I build my own so I can play the canary part.

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