Hi: Porting Cramfs on FreeBSD

[Eric Anderson]

On 09/27/06 08:07, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> krishnamurthy holla wrote:
>  >  I want to port cramfs to freebsd-6.1 ; can anybody give me
>  > some tips about how to port..
> 
> I think porting cramfs is not a good idea.  It's GPL'ed,
> doesn't fully support POSIX semantics, and has severe
> limitations (16 MB maximum file size, 256 MB maximum file
> system size).
> 
> It is probably better to design a new file system from
> scratch (and make it BSD-licensed).
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 


I'm currently working on a tarfs, that will do something similar to 
this, except it allows you to use a regular tar file as the file system 
image.  I don't have compression working yet, but that is on the 
roadmap.  It's also more fully featured than cramfs - it will support 
the full uid/gids, . and .. directories, hard links, large file system 
sizes (based on available memory), real timestamps, full permissions 
(but not extended attributes), and will be BSD licensed.


Eric



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