Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!emory!att!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bruner From: bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix reading/writing non-Minix file systems (SunOS?) Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 90 18:04:12 GMT References: <32883@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <684@philica.ica.philips.nl> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: na Organization: CSRD, University of Illinois Lines: 8 In-Reply-To: adrie@philica.ica.philips.nl's message of 10 Oct 90 07:57:23 GMT I seem to recall that for testing purposes Berkeley first implemented the 4.2BSD filesystem under 4.1BSD with user-mode code that wrote to files. However, my memory of this is pretty hazy. If indeed this is true, then using that code in application programs might be the easiest path for reading and writing BSD filesystems. -- John Bruner Center for Supercomputing R&D, University of Illinois bruner@csrd.uiuc.edu (217) 244-4476