Subject: Re: Further observations...
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/09/1998 09:30:47
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > The stuff on puma is, AFAIK, the latest. Paul and I haven't touched it in
> > years.
> > 
> > That code base would be a good educational reference, but I think Paul
> > Hargrove's macfs would be a better port. It'll write, and someone is
> > adding HFS+ support to it. It's only problem is it was not at all designed
> > to be used in anything other than Linux; there's no MacFS/UnixFS boundry
> > layer.
> 
> That was the plan... I'm not familiar at all with the way BSD deals with
> filesystems, so the old hfsfs code would be a means of figuring out the
> NetBSD vfs layer (is that the right term?).  I'll dl both of those and
> have a look.

Also look at msdosfs. It's a real live non-unix FS, and it gets updated.
:-) Also, most of the vfs layer stuff I think we stole from msdosfs.

Another good reference is the red book (the 4.4BSD book). It doesn't
explain all, but it's a good start.

Take care,

Bill