[haiku] Re: mount BFS on linux


Dustin Howett wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:25 AM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>>> "Skar Cat" <skarmiglione.sk4r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Is posible that? how can ? i was serch thaht on th internet...but
>>>> was
>>>> unfurtive.
>>>>         
>>> That depends if "befs" (that's how the Linux folks call BFS, and
>>> might
>>> also explain your lack of luck searching for a solution) is part of
>>> your distribution. If you're using SuSE or Ubuntu you should be fine,
>>> though.
>>> Just mount it like this:
>>> $ sudo mount -t befs /path-to-my-device-or-image /path-to-mount-point
>>>
>>>       
>> You might need to modprobe befs
>>
>> Also, I don't think linux mount works with images yet. At least it used
>> to require using the loop device...
>>
>> François.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Still requires loopback...
> mount -t befs /path/to/image.be /mount/point -o loop
>   
Doubt this is ever going to work since that is not part of the Linux
philosophy :P . Loopback is and ever will be for mounting partition
files whereas mount is for character devices. As far as I know though (
the last time I checked that is ) BeFS doesn't support writing but I
could be wrong on this one. Because if so I could try placing some files
into the Haiku test-image to run under VMWare ( have got troubles with
ACPI and other nasty things so I wanted to fiddle around a bit with
drivers to see how things look like right now in the alpha build ).

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