mmdf@udel.UUCP (10/10/87)
I have had very little success with Minix because of some basic problems interfacing with my floppy disk drives. I have followed most of the discussions with great interest (with the possible exception of all the PDP 11 junk) looking for some way to easily (and I stress easily!) port the data from the Minix diskettes (which I can't use) to MS-DOS format (which I can use) without having to depend upon access to someone elses system. At last! A recent posting (I think it was by ast, but if it was someone else I apologize) included a program named "readfs.c" which was intended to perform file system operations on a special device. One useful operation is to replicate the file system structure on another specified file system! I believe that the objective system was intended to be a Unix system, but with a little hacking, I have managed to make it work under MS-DOS using TurboC's "absread" library routine. Three cheers for the poster!! I intend first, to make the system work using the recent TurboC diffs; then to try my hand at porting the system to a 386 in protected mode. I already have a design for a paging subsystem in mind (its just another system task like mm and fs). I have some background in operating systems development so I think that I can do it although other matters will eat into my time. If anyone is interested, I'll be glad to post my hack to readfs. It runs just fine except for some anomolies concerning Unix/MS-DOS name length conflicts. I may even get around to working on that, but I may leave that as an exercise for another interested hacker. There are only a couple of files that readfs can't create and I had access to them from elsewhere. Gary Lewis Ultra!Gary@Ames.ARPA
coulter@hpclisp.HP.COM (Michael Coulter) (10/13/87)
Plase post the complete source, not just the diffs. I for one am very
interested in such a program.
-- Michael Coulter {ucbvax|hplabs}!hpda!coulter