This is an ALPHA patch for adding BSD ufs filesystem support (readonly for now) to linux. The patch was made against kernel 1.1.55. The patch includes additional 1 line to config.in, but as my config.in is probably different than yours, this might go wrong. Not a big deal. My setup of FreeBSD lives in its own partition, which is sub-divided by the BSD disklabel; therefore the partition recognition code (genhd.c) now handles disklabel-in-partition, similar to the way extended partitions are handled. This, however, have two problems. First, the number of total LOGICAL (i.e. inside-BSD or inside-extended) partitions (hdx5 and up) is small, and if you have both extended and BSD, or several BSDs, some partitions may not be accessible. The other problem is the assignment of device numbers; If your BSD partition is processed before the DOS-like extended partition, the logical partitions read from the extended partition will be shifted to higher numbers (or ignored, if max. number of logical partitions exceeds). This will have to be solved sometime, but implementing read/write is more important for me. It is also possible that the disklabel-treatment will be taken off the bootup code, and placed as a ioctl which will have to be called before mounting. There are some other cases that are not currently considered, such as an installation with a standalone disklabel, i.e. with no dos-like partition table. Also, cases where the fragment size isn't 1024 or 512 aren't supported (though it MIGHT work). This patch comes with ABSOLUTLY NO WARRANTY. I would like to hear some comments about this, as I don't really know much about possible bsd installations. Yossi Gottlieb (yogo@math.tau.ac.il)
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