From: kevin@taronga.taronga.com (Kevin Brown) Subject: Re: gcc freeze, dos fs Date: 28 Jun 1992 01:18:07 GMT
In article <1992Jun27.200155.3886@bernina.ethz.ch> almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
>In article <1992Jun27.063705.17600@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>> Will it be possible some time to allow the DOS FS to be able to use a
>> Linux file as a DOS file system?
>
>That's exactly what I'm doing all the time right now. I can also mount
>Linux files as Linux FS', create new files on them run mkfs and mount
>those files, etc. (I've just mounted an MS-DOS file as Linux FS. That
>MS-DOS file resides on an MS-DOS FS in a Linux file ... df shows some
>creative chaos ;-)
>
>It's pretty handy when testing (MS-DOS) FS code: I have a good FS in
>file A and copy it to file B, that I'm mounting then. If my FS code
>trashes it, I don't mind.
>
>I've submitted the patch to Linus. Hopefully, popular demand will
>raise its priority a bit ;-)
Count me as part of the "popular demand". The ability to do fs indirection
to get at other filesystems is an excellent idea, and would be real useful.
A very nice generalization of the idea of file systems, and very much in
keeping with one of the Unix traditions: everything looks like a file. :-)
>- Werner
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Kevin Brown (kevin@taronga.taronga.com)