[openbeos] Re: The time has arrived. :P :)
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:25:28 +0200 (MEST)
Hmm, I really want to make backups for now...
Less and less HDD space everyday :D
Good job btw.
En réponse à "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hey guys, this is an official request from the OpenBFS Team. OpenBFS is
>
> now in a stage where it is almost feature complete and it can be
> actually be used for testing purposes.
>
> What to expect:
>
> 1 - Full read/write support for file/directories (only some minor stuff
>
> missing).
> 2 - Full attribute support.
> 3 - Full index maintainance support.
> 4 - Queries.
>
> What is missing:
>
> 1 - Journaling.
> 2 - Live queries.
>
> As I said above, it is in a state it can be tested. It is not complete
>
> by any chance and, specially, it is not tested. It *CAN* (and probably
>
> will) get you to KDL and as it does not have any journaling in place
> data in the partition mounted using it can get corrupted. This is not
> for the faint of heart. :)
>
> How to test it?
>
> Get the sources from CVS (I won't explain how, look in the OpenBeOS
> pages for an explanation), open a Terminal window, "cd" to the BeFS dir
>
> and type "make" (without quotes, of course).
>
> If everything goes right, a binary file called obfs will be in the
> obj.x86 dir. Just copy it to "~/config/add-ons/kernel/file_systems".
>
> To mount a partition usign it, unmount it (if it is currently mounted,
>
> of course) and use the "mount" command line tool to mount the partition
>
> as obfs ("mount -t obfs /path/to/partition/or/image/file /path/to/
> directory/where/it/should/be/mounted"
>
> Then just start copying files, deleting files, creating attributes,
> removing them, anything you can think of. Your mission is to crash it.
>
> :)
>
> Any bug reports/suggestions should be posted to openbfs-develop@bug-
> br.org.br.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Bruno (OpenBFS Team Lead)
>
>
> --
> Fortune Cookie Says:
>
> Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than
> we deserve.
> -- George Bernard Shaw
>
>
>
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