Re: Mounting BFS partition oddness

Makoto Kato (m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:36:45 +0900 (JST)


Hi, Larry. Please tell me about BFS...

At Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:06:23 -0600,
Larry Ayers <layers@marktwain.net> wrote ...
> I just had the strangest thing happen, with 2.2.2-pre5; I had
> applied Makoto Kato's second BFS filesystem patch, and wanted to
> try it out. I rebooted with the new kernel and mounted my Be
> partition with 'mount -t bfs'. The partition was mounted, I
> could list directories and files, I could cat text files to the
> console, and I successfully copied a couple of files to a Linux
> partition. Then I realized that I had never insmod-ed the bfs
> module! How can this have worked? The odd thing is that I'm
> unable to use the bfs module to copy files, even with this second
> version. I'm just curious; anyone have any ideas?

Please tell me what you do. I tested on Linux 2.2.1 only. So, does it
cause on Linux 2.2.1??

And, please test bfs-19990221.tar.gz. This sources can be found in

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/bfs-19990221.tar.gz

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Makoto Kato
mailto:m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp ICQ No.14395562
http://www.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/

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