On 03/10/2017 06:24 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I don't want to distract you from your project, but it would be nice if
Haiku could port UFS aka
FFS (BSD file system).
I read that ReactOS recently added read-only support for UFS.
As far as I can tell, Linux can read UFS but not write.
There isn't a single UFS. Each OS in the UNIX family implements its own
extensions to the original one. This means write support isn't practical,
and it is hard to get information about it.
This is why Linux did only limited read-only support.
Also of interest would be xfs, since xfs is listed on the --use-xattr page
as one file system where
xattr works.
JFS should also be fit for this.
Adrien.
I hadn't realized UFS systems were incompatible with each other, thought it
was a bug in DragonFlyBSD (maybe it is?).
I downloaded DragonFlyBSD USB installation image, bzip2 -d, and dd to USB
stick.
I could not mount this from NetBSD or FreeBSD, and couldn't mount FreeBSD or
NetBSD partitions when I booted the DragonFlyBSD USB stick. Latest
DragonFlyBSD USB image that I tried failed to go through the boot.
Maybe if I could cross-compile DragonFlyBSD from FreeBSD and install to a
partition or USB stick newfs'ed from FreeBSD? Just a thought that went
through my mind, low probability of success: not really a topic for haiku*
lists, so let's not pursue it here.
Tom