| To: | Alex deVries <adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: volume header fs... |
| From: | "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com> |
| Date: | Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:41:21 -0700 |
| Cc: | SGI Linux <linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> |
| In-reply-to: | <Pine.LNX.3.95.980711182315.8181A-100000@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca> |
| References: | <Pine.LNX.3.95.980711182315.8181A-100000@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca> |
| Sender: | owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
Alex deVries writes:
>
> What is on a volume header file system? Is it EFS or something else?
>
> I was thinking about writing such a driver so we could easily put Linux
> kernels there.
It is a very simple flat file system, hardly deserving the name.
The directory is a list of name and (single) extent descriptors. I don't
have the format ready to hand, but I can look it up if it isn't obvious
from dumping the first few blocks of the volume header (the first few
blocks of the disk).
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