[Coco] Linux RBF filesystem support

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, James Dessart 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. Perhaps even read-only

> support for casette images.


In general, I agree completely.  However, the RBF module seems to be 
actively maintained and was recently updated for 2.6.24+ kernels.

Steve


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