Re: Filesystem support (and wondering about current projects ,and a crash)
"David Waite" <mass@ufl.edu> writes:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tb@opus.mit.edu [mailto:tb@opus.mit.edu]On
> >
> > FAT/VFAT support would be *very* nice.
> >
> Yes, I miss it =)
>
> I am starting to look depply into kernel architecture/hackery, and I'm
> looking for a (IMO) slightly smaller project to start on first.
As far as I understand, implementing a new filesystems does *not*
require any kernel hacking. Filesystems are user-level processes.
That's one of the points of HURD, I guess.
You don't even need a spare partition to play with; just dd a
fat/vfat/fvsh filesystem to a file, and run the filesystem translator
you are hacking on against that file.
/Niels
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