Subject: [ANNOUNCE] System V filesystem Sysvfs is an implementation of the System V and Coherent and Xenix filesystems for Linux. It grew out of separate filesystem implementations Xenix FS Doug Evans June 1992 SystemV FS Paul B. Monday March-June 1993 Coherent FS B. Haible June 1993 and was merged together in July 1993. This is version alpha 5. To install: * You need Linux 0.99.10 or newer. * Go to /usr/src/linux, unpack the tar file there, and patch the Linux source: patch -p1 < sysvfs.cdif To build the Linux kernel with the patches: make config make depend make * To mount a disk or a partition, use mount [-r] -t sysv device mountpoint The file system type names -t sysv -t xenix -t coherent may be used interchangeably, but the last two will eventually disappear. Bugs in the present implementation: - Coherent FS: - The "free list interleave" n:m is currently ignored. - Only file systems with no filesystem name and no pack name are recognized. (See Coherent "man mkfs" for a description of these features.) - SystemV Release 2 FS: The superblock is only searched in the blocks 9, 15, 18, which corresponds to the beginning of track 1 on floppy disks. No support for this FS on hard disk yet. Bruno Haible