On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Ted Lemon wrote:

> 
> > Just to let you know Andrew McMurray's filecore filesystem is now
> > in the NetBSD tree. Thanks go to Andrew for the hardwork in implementing
> > it.
> 
> Cool.   What is it?

The filecore filesystem is a read only implementation of the filecore file
system found in Acorn Computers RISC OS operating system. This operating
system is the ROM based operating system found on their ARM 6, ARM7 and
StrongARM 110 based RiscPC machines that are supported by the arm32 port.
Under RISC OS, filecore will have multiple instantiations for file
systems on different block devices such as floppies, IDE discs, SCSI discs
etc. and these frquently are considered to be different filesystems
e.g. ADFS, IDEFS, SCSIFS etc.

These days the filesystem is a bit dated and behind the times (e.g. 10
character filenames and 77 files per directory etc.)

Like MSDOS it has no concept of uid and gid's for files and has limited
permissions e.g. local read/write access and public read/write access (for
networks).

However since RISC OS is built into ROM on Acorn RiscPC it is the primary
operating system found on these machines and thus users running
NetBSD/arm32 on such machines will frequently have discs with
filecore partitions on them.

(You could compare this to AmigaDOS, Commadore and NetBSD/amiga.)

Cheers,
				Mark