[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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