From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mallison@konnections.com (Mike Allison) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:38 -0700 Subject: V7 filesystem work Message-ID: <199902210203.TAA18682@mail.konnections.com> Yeah, I'm interested. Can you write up what changes the linux port entailed??? -Mike At 07:10 PM 2/20/99 +0100, g4klx at g4klx.demon.co.uk wrote: >Hello All > >A couple of weeks ago I hacked the program v7 from the bostic_tools to >work under all sorts of different Unix versions. It worked great and >allowed me to snoop around the V7 file system images from native Linux. >Anyone who wants a copy can send me an e-mail. > >Anyway I had a few hours spare today, and decided to try adding the V7 >filesystem to the Linux kernel. Results so far are encouraging: > > >g4klx:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /mnt >total 333 >drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 224 Sep 22 1988 . >drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Feb 14 11:55 .. >drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 2512 Sep 22 1988 bin >-rwxr-xr-x 1 3 3 8986 Jun 8 1979 boot >drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 160 Sep 22 1988 dev >drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 336 Sep 22 1988 etc >-rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 53302 Jun 8 1979 hphtunix >-rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 52850 Jun 8 1979 hptmunix >drwxrwxr-x 2 3 3 192 Sep 22 1988 lib >drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 96 Sep 22 1988 mdec >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 50990 Jun 8 1979 rkunix >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 51982 Jun 8 1979 rl2unix >-rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 51790 Jun 8 1979 rphtunix >-rwxr-xr-x 1 daemon daemon 51274 Jun 8 1979 rptmunix >g4klx:/usr/src/linux# df >Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on >/dev/hda1 3031184 1920771 953665 67% / >/dev/loop0 1919 1877 42 98% /mnt >g4klx:/usr/src/linux# > > >I am using the loop block device to allow me to mount a file as a block >device, this saves me having to add a new partition to my disc. There >should be no reason why it won't work with a true disc partition. The V7 >filesystem under Linux is read/write. > >Anyone interested ? > >Jonathan > > > > Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA02555 for pups-liszt; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:29:44 +1100 (EST) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA02549 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:29:37 +1100 (EST) Received: (from wkt at localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA08687; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:29:29 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey Message-Id: <199902210229.NAA08687 at henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: V7 filesystem work In-Reply-To: from Jonathan Naylor at "Feb 20, 1999 7:10:45 pm" To: g4klx at g4klx.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:29:29 +1100 (EST) Cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Reply-To: wkt at cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Jonathan Naylor: > Hello All > > A couple of weeks ago I hacked the program v7 from the bostic_tools to > work under all sorts of different Unix versions. It worked great and > allowed me to snoop around the V7 file system images from native Linux. > Anyone who wants a copy can send me an e-mail. > > Anyway I had a few hours spare today, and decided to try adding the V7 > filesystem to the Linux kernel. Results so far are encouraging: > I am using the loop block device to allow me to mount a file as a block > device, this saves me having to add a new partition to my disc. There > should be no reason why it won't work with a true disc partition. The V7 > filesystem under Linux is read/write. > > Anyone interested ? I'd be happy to add any changes etc. into the Tools directory in the PUPS Archive. It's about time Unix could read the Unix filesystem again :-) Ciao, Warren Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA05201 for pups-liszt; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:23:41 +1100 (EST) Received: from biene.agri.ch (biene.agri.ch [212.28.128.41]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA05195 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:23:21 +1100 (EST) X-Internal-ID: 36B8327D0006E80C Received: from g4klx.agri.ch (212.28.159.135) by biene.agri.ch (NPlex 2.0.119); Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:23:16 +0100 Received: from localhost (g4klx at localhost) by g4klx.agri.ch (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00455; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:07:51 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: g4klx.agri.ch: g4klx owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:07:50 +0100 (CET) From: Jonathan Naylor X-Sender: g4klx at g4klx.agri.ch Reply-To: g4klx at g4klx.demon.co.uk To: Mike Allison cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Re: V7 filesystem work In-Reply-To: <199902210203.TAA18682 at mail.konnections.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Hello Mike and the list On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Mike Allison wrote: > Yeah, I'm interested. Can you write up what changes the linux port entailed??? > > -Mike I assume you mean the standalone V7 FS program rather than the kernel V7 FS support ? The code was written in old C, and from a modern C programmers point of view, rather sloppily. The warnings from the compiler were terrible, so I added function prototypes, and made the code more ANSI C like. Then I got rid of a few bugs, in one place I remember a character pointer being assigned to a character. I then typedef'd the data types so I could use int8, int16 and int32 in the code to make it more portable. I stopped using structure overlays onto the raw data as that is messy and is not good for (a) byte ordering and (b) structure packing. It also allowed me to stop using the original V7 file headers which would have made a public release of the code problematic. The data is extracted from the raw block data by using special architecturally neutral functions into locally held structures. That is a particular win with the block number in three bytes trick that is used in the inode. It has been tested on i386/Linux with both glibc 1.0 and glibc 2.0 and Alpha/Linux, no changes were needed. Then I added a few new commands to let me look at the superblock and bootblocks and a few other bits. Then I released it. I have just sent a copy of the program to Warren for inclusion in the PUPS tools section. Its not very big. Work is progressing on the V7 filesystem in the Linux kernel. Anyone who wants the patches for that should send me an e-mail. I hope to get it into the mainstream kernel in the Linux 2.3 series. Jonathan