From: drew@cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: Installable filesystems in linux Date: 11 Mar 1992 08:37:06 GMT
In article <1992Mar11.023659.11075@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> hpa@nwu.edu (Peter Anvin) writes:
>
>Excuse me for asking this question before RTFM... I don't yet have a
>machine that I can run linux (or LINUX?) on for another month or so, but
>does linux support installable filesystems, or is the Minix file system
>hardcoded in? If so, is anyone working on an DOS filesystems driver? I
This is changing. VFS is isolating the file-system specific code.
>know the DOS filesystem sucks majorly and I am not intending to use it for
>anything serious, but I can see it being quite useful to allow shuttling
>data between DOS and linux. I presume most linuxers also are running DOS
Mtools will directlly read and write DOS floppies and disk partitions
fine. Also, you can tar directly to raw floppy with the GNUISH tar,
or from another Unix machine (I tar from RS6000's)