I am looking for people that have both OI experience and a Linux
machine to test out a Linux/g++ version of OI 4.0 beta. Please send
me mail if you are interested.
Warner
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I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.
by Warner Lo » Sun, 16 May 1993 07:18:22
Warner
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I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.
1. Wanted: Xenix filesystem for Linux beta testers
Having written a Xenix filesystem for Linux (more on why later :-),
I figure I might as well see if anyone else wants it.
Why? I have gobs of source and data files and don't want two copies of it all
(one for when I boot Xenix and one for when I boot Linux). Now I can boot
either and have access to *one* copy. Of course, I still need separate
binaries, .o's, etc. but no big deal. I also have one news spool directory
and can read news in Xenix or Linux (and mail and uucp logs, etc.).
I also wrote it because I have the CMS Xenix device driver for the Jumbo 250
tape drive. I back up Linux when I back up Xenix! Way cool!
My setup is now:
200MB IDE 30MB DOS
50MB Xenix (root+swap)
60MB Linux (root+swap)
60MB Xenix/Linux (/usr/spool)
1Gig SCSI 100MB DOS
300MB Xenix/Linux (/home)
300MB Xenix/Linux (/usr/src)
360MB Xenix/Linux (/u)
For Linux'ers wanting a *real* filesystem :-) this ain't it. File names are
still max 14 chars and in this case there are no symbolic links.
You also *need* Xenix. I haven't written mkfs/fsck for Linux, but plan
to "sometime". The filesystem was quite easy given that the Minix filesystem
isn't *that* different (they're all SysV variants). The only real difference
(that comes to mind) is the bitmaps vs free list, so I should be able to take
Linux's mkfs/fsck and adapt them.
I don't have Xenix divvy table or badtrk table support, and don't plan to for
the nonce. I just don't need them, and plugging these in seemed to require more
substantial changes to Linux than just plugging in a filesystem.
For my Xenix/Linux filesystems, I just did an mkfs on the entire partition,
and bypassed divvy.
So, any takers? (If so, please email).
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Doug Evans | "You're just supposed to sit here?"
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