[9fans] of historical interest (old Unix filesystems using FUSE)

[9fans] of historical interest (old Unix filesystems using FUSE)

[Aharon Robbins]

This is from the TUHS list. I thought it might be of interest here, too.

> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:05:30 +1000
> From: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
> To: tuhs@tuhs.org
> Subject: [TUHS] Old UNIX Filesystems with FUSE
>
> http://osxbook.com/software/ancientfs/
>
> Amit Singh has added support for a whole bunch of early UNIX filesystem and
> archive formats to FUSE.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Warren
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A subsequent mail says that it doesn't work immediately on Linux but
apparently it shouldn't be that hard.

Didn't Plan 9 have a way to mount 6th and 7th edition disk images also?
Was that ever released?

Arnold

Re: [9fans] of historical interest (old Unix filesystems using FUSE)

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> Didn't Plan 9 have a way to mount 6th and 7th edition disk images also?
> Was that ever released?

tapefs(4)

Re: [9fans] of historical interest (old Unix filesystems using FUSE)

[Steve Simon]

> Didn't Plan 9 have a way to mount 6th and 7th edition disk images also?
> Was that ever released?

yep, it exists, though the support is not
as extensive that ancientfs.

http://www.quintile.net/magic/man2html/4/tapefs

-Steve

Re: [9fans] of historical interest (old Unix filesystems using FUSE)

[Charles Forsyth]

>Didn't Plan 9 have a way to mount 6th and 7th edition disk images also?

man 4 tapefs