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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d8172241801 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +This is the implementation of the SystemV/Coherent filesystem for Linux. +It implements all of + - Xenix FS, + - SystemV/386 FS, + - Coherent FS. + +This is version beta 4. + +To install: +* Answer the 'System V and Coherent filesystem support' question with 'y' + when configuring the kernel. +* To mount a disk or a partition, use + mount [-r] -t sysv device mountpoint + The file system type names + -t sysv + -t xenix + -t coherent + may be used interchangeably, but the last two will eventually disappear. + +Bugs in the present implementation: +- Coherent FS: + - The "free list interleave" n:m is currently ignored. + - Only file systems with no filesystem name and no pack name are recognized. + (See Coherent "man mkfs" for a description of these features.) +- SystemV Release 2 FS: + The superblock is only searched in the blocks 9, 15, 18, which + corresponds to the beginning of track 1 on floppy disks. No support + for this FS on hard disk yet. + + +Please report any bugs and suggestions to + Bruno Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> + Pascal Haible <haible@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de> + Krzysztof G. Baranowski <kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl> + +Bruno Haible +<haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> + |