[Coco] Linux RBF filesystem support

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 07:49:38 EDT 2008


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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