1 BeOS filesystem for Linux
3 Document last updated: Dec 6, 2001
7 Make sure you understand that this is alpha software. This means that the
8 implementation is neither complete nor well-tested.
10 I DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILTY FOR ANY POSSIBLE BAD EFFECTS OF THIS CODE!
14 This software is covered by the GNU General Public License.
15 See the file COPYING for the complete text of the license.
16 Or the GNU website: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html>
20 Current maintainer: Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>
21 Has been working on the code since Aug 13, 2001. See the changelog for
24 Original Author: Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>
25 His orriginal code can still be found at:
26 <http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/>
27 Does anyone know of a more current email address for Makoto? He doesn't
28 respond to the address given above...
32 This module implements the native filesystem of BeOS <http://www.be.com/>
33 for the linux 2.4.1 and later kernels. Currently it is a read-only
36 Which is it, BFS or BEFS?
38 Be, Inc said, "BeOS Filesystem is officially called BFS, not BeFS".
39 But Unixware Boot Filesystem is called bfs, too. And they are already in
40 the kernel. Because of this nameing conflict, on Linux the BeOS
41 filesystem is called befs.
45 step 1. Install the BeFS patch into the source code tree of linux.
47 Apply the patchfile to your kernel source tree.
48 Assuming that your kernel source is in /foo/bar/linux and the patchfile
49 is called patch-befs-xxx, you would do the following:
52 patch -p1 < /path/to/patch-befs-xxx
54 if the patching step fails (i.e. there are rejected hunks), you can try to
55 figure it out yourself (it shouldn't be hard), or mail the maintainer
56 (Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>) for help.
58 step 2. Configuretion & make kernel
60 The linux kernel has many compile-time options. Most of them are beyond the
61 scope of this document. I suggest the Kernel-HOWTO document as a good general
62 reference on this topic. <http://www.linux.com/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html>
64 However, to use the BeFS module, you must enable it at configure time.
67 make menuconfig (or xconfig)
69 The BeFS module is not a standard part of the linux kernel, so you must first
70 enable support for experimental code under the "Code maturity level" menu.
72 Then, under the "Filesystems" menu will be an option called "BeFS
73 filesystem (experimental)", or something like that. Enable that option
74 (it is fine to make it a module).
76 Save your kernel configuration and then build your kernel.
80 See the kernel howto <http://www.linux.com/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html> for
81 instructions on this critical step.
85 To use the BeOS filesystem, use filesystem type 'befs'.
88 mount -t befs /dev/fd0 /beos
92 uid=nnn All files in the partition will be owned by user id nnn.
93 gid=nnn All files in the partition will be in group nnn.
94 iocharset=xxx Use xxx as the name of the NLS translation table.
95 debug The driver will output debugging information to the syslog.
97 HOW TO GET LASTEST VERSION
98 ==========================
100 The latest version is currently available at:
101 <http://befs-driver.sourceforge.net/>
111 Dominic Giampalo ... Writing "Practical file system design with Be filesystem"
112 Hiroyuki Yamada ... Testing LinuxPPC.