[Coco] Linux RBF filesystem support

[tim lindner]

James Dessart <skwirl42 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On 10/19/08, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> 

> > If you decide to pick-up an RBF project, it would probably be best if

> >  it were turned into a FUSE filesystem.  That would have the benefit

> >  of not needing to either patch new kernels or to keep-up with changing

> >  internal kernel APIs.

> 

> Plus it could be made to run on Mac OS X, which I think a few of us

> use. It'd be nice to have FUSE drivers for both RS-DOS format and RBF.

> It'd make using CoCo images so much easier. 


Boisy put together a FUSE (and MacFUSE) extension in toolshed. It is
currently broken, not sure why. I have not looked into it.


> Perhaps even read-only support for casette images.


This would even been eiaser now with the libcecb I wrote.

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tim lindner
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