Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!gdtltr From: gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu (gdtltr@limbo.org (The Befuddled One)) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Possible to "mount" a DOS file system under Minix? (and FFS blurb) Message-ID: <22377@brahms.udel.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 04:05:02 GMT References: <4239@beguine.UUCP> Organization: Your Organization Could Be Here! Lines: 104 In article <4239@beguine.UUCP> Stanley.Carey@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Stanley Carey) writes: => => => Is it possible to "mount" a DOS file system under Minix. I mean besides using =>DOS read, write, dir utilities. Has anyone had any success with mounting =>foreign file systems? HAs anyone been able to run MINIX completely from =>a DOS file system without creating a MINIX partition. => Possibly, I doubt it, and I seriously doubt it. I have done some design work towards building a virtual file system under Minix based on the Amoeba RPC. Supposedly, a virtual MS-DOS file system could be implemented using a design like my "Fake File System". If anyone is interested, I have put my design paper up for anonymous FTP at louie.udel.edu:/pub/Minix/ffs.ps.Z. I make no claims as to its usefulness or quality; this is my first attempt at putting something like this together. The paper describes the client/ server interface and the modifications to the Minix FS that are necessary to support the FFS. Let me stress here that this is a paper design only. I had originally hoped to get the thing working, but unfortunately I didn't manage it in the time provided. Therefore, don't ask me to send you the code; there isn't any. If you have any questions (e.g. "What the is this guy talking about?!?!"), feel free to send me email. Back to the original questions, and more specifically, the third, I don't think anyone is considering doing such a thing, though I suppose, theoretically, it could be done. It would be a matter of tossing 99% of the FS out the window and putting MS-DOS FS code in that follows Minix FS semantics. A FFS-based virtual MS-DOS FS combined with a /dev/ram or floppy-based root file system might be made to work and would be more flexible, but you would still have to write your own MS-DOS FS code. =>Thank You, => =>Stanley Carey => Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] To be is to be networked. [|o o|] |_o_| Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about. |_o_| Newsgroups: Stanley.Carey@bbs.oit.unc.edu Subject: Re: Possible to "mount" a DOS file system under Minix? (and FFS blurb) Summary: Expires: References: <4239@beguine.UUCP> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Your Organization Could Be Here! Keywords: In article <4239@beguine.UUCP> Stanley.Carey@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Stanley Carey) writes: => => => Is it possible to "mount" a DOS file system under Minix. I mean besides using =>DOS read, write, dir utilities. Has anyone had any success with mounting =>foreign file systems? HAs anyone been able to run MINIX completely from =>a DOS file system without creating a MINIX partition. => Possibly, I doubt it, and I seriously doubt it. I have done some design work towards building a virtual file system under Minix based on the Amoeba RPC. Supposedly, a virtual MS-DOS file system could be implemented using a design like my "Fake File System". If anyone is interested, I have put my design paper up for anonymous FTP at louie.udel.edu:/pub/Minix/ffs.ps.Z. I make no claims as to its usefulness or quality; this is my first attempt at putting something like this together. The paper describes the client/ server interface and the modifications to the Minix FS that are necessary to support the FFS. Let me stress here that this is a paper design only. I had originally hoped to get the thing working, but unfortunately I didn't manage it in the time provided. Therefore, don't ask me to send you the code; there isn't any. If you have any questions (e.g. "What the is this guy talking about?!?!"), feel free to send me email. Back to the original questions, and more specifically, the third, I don't think anyone is considering doing such a thing, though I suppose, theoretically, it could be done. It would be a matter of tossing 99% of the FS out the window and putting MS-DOS FS code in that follows Minix FS semantics. A FFS-based virtual MS-DOS FS combined with a /dev/ram or floppy-based root file system might be made to work and would be more flexible, but you would still have to write your own MS-DOS FS code. =>Thank You, => =>Stanley Carey => Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] To be is to be networked. [|o o|] |_o_| Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about. |_o_|