[haiku-development] Update on Windows driver for BeFS

  • From: Ben Dover <badasahog1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 12:52:31 -0400

Recently I stated that I would be willing to work on a Windows filesystem
driver for BeFS but it’s turned out to be harder than I anticipated.

The main problem is that I lack the knowledge of how BeFS works, and there
is no official documentation outside of a book that is quite unclear and
possibly incorrect.

I don’t want to spend days trying to reverse engineer the system and
reading driver code from Haiku (which I’ve already tried to do), so if
anyone familiar with how the system works would document it properly it
would be a huge help for me, and probably others who wish to get involved
with either Haiku or BeFS.

As an additional note, documentation doesn’t need to be super fancy of
scientific like it is for complex specifications, something in the style of
the metroid prime wiki would work just fine (example 2
<https://wiki.axiodl.com/w/index.php?title=Geometry_(Metroid_Prime)>)

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