[openbeos] Re: BeFS

  • From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:11:30 -0600

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 17:52, you wrote:
> > I would assume that the majority of the work was based on the
> > Linux read-only BeFS driver.   Will Dyson recently joined the
> > OpenBeOS group.
>
> Actually, they doesn't share a single line of code (and this has to be
> so, because we have a different license; the linux driver is GPLs).
> I need to write a BFS recovery tool for BFS some weeks ago (due to
> memory corruption), and I had written all the stuff needed to read BFS
> devices.
>
> That's why we were so fast - I could use most of this code or could at
> least adapt it to it's new purpose.
>
> OTOH the write part will be *MUCH* harder.
>
> Adios...
>    Axel.

My hat is off to you and, of course, Dominic.  

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timothy.covell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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