cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) (03/29/89)
The recent posting of Min2Dos looks real handy. Has anyone considered an implementation of the Minix filesystem on top of another OS filesystem? It seems like the ultimate cross- development tool would be an implementation of fs using DOS files so one wouldn't need to run conversion utilities at all. This might also be a helpful thing to have for porting to the many almost-compatible DOS machines. What, other than the extra file attributes (which I would be willing to stick in a magic file in each DOS directory), would such a version of the FS require? -- | Clint Jeffery, University of Arizona Department of Computer Science | cjeffery@arizona.edu -or- {noao allegra}!arizona!cjeffery --
hve@cernvax.UUCP (H.v.Eicken) (03/30/89)
At LIP in Lisbon, Portugal, where I am working for one year, we implemented the MINIX filesystem on top of the VAX VMS filesystem. At the same time we moved Amoeba, the MINIX RPC system, to the VAX under VMS. Currently we are busy moving MINIX_ST to a VME based 68030/68882 system which has an Ethernet interface. At the same time we are using ideas from D. Comers XINU implemen- tation of a "stateless remote file server" to allow access from the VME based system via Ethernet to the MINIX file system on the VAX/VMS. What is working? Well, we can communicate between several VAX/VMS systems using Amoeba. We can access the MINIX file system on the VAX/VMS using a command interface. We are surrently testing the remote file server access between VAX/VMS systems using AMOEBA and the MINIX FS. The port of MINIX_ST to the VME based system is making progress, but will still take some time. This whole work is carried out at LIP by five people, most of them part time, as a project in the frame work of building up a systems programmer group. This work is supported by CERN by sending me for one year to LIP to build up such a group, but has no connection with the program of work at CERN at all. Horst von Eicken, currently at LIP, Av. Elias Garcia 14-1, Lisboa, Portugal