any affs image

any affs image

[Artem Bityutskiy]

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Hi Geert,

do you happen to have an affs disk image, by any chance? I need to make
few changes in the affs file-system in the linux kernel but and I would
like to test them. But unfortunately, I was not able to find any working
way of formatting my dist to affs.

CCing the mailing list in case someone else could help.

Thanks!

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Artem Bityutskiy

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Re: any affs image

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Artem,

> do you happen to have an affs disk image, by any chance? I need to make
> few changes in the affs file-system in the linux kernel but and I would
> like to test them. But unfortunately, I was not able to find any working
> way of formatting my dist to affs.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/affstools-0.1a.tar.gz contains an mkaffs tool.

Hope this helps...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

Re: any affs image

[Artem Bityutskiy]

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On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 21:21 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Artem,
> 
> > do you happen to have an affs disk image, by any chance? I need to make
> > few changes in the affs file-system in the linux kernel but and I would
> > like to test them. But unfortunately, I was not able to find any working
> > way of formatting my dist to affs.
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/affstools-0.1a.tar.gz contains an mkaffs tool.
> 
> Hope this helps...

Hi, thanks, I tried it and it worked neither for files nor for block
device nodes, I do not know why. But I've found a different mkfs.affs
which actually works. Thanks!

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Artem Bityutskiy

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Re: any affs image

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Artem,

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 21:21 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > do you happen to have an affs disk image, by any chance? I need to make
>> > few changes in the affs file-system in the linux kernel but and I would
>> > like to test them. But unfortunately, I was not able to find any working
>> > way of formatting my dist to affs.
>>
>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/affstools-0.1a.tar.gz contains an mkaffs tool.
>>
>> Hope this helps...
>
> Hi, thanks, I tried it and it worked neither for files nor for block
> device nodes, I do not know why. But I've found a different mkfs.affs

Strange. I did try it yesterday (without mounting the result, though).

Did you pass a volume name as second parameter?

> which actually works. Thanks!

OK.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

Re: any affs image

[Artem Bityutskiy]

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On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 09:50 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Artem,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 21:21 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> > do you happen to have an affs disk image, by any chance? I need to make
> >> > few changes in the affs file-system in the linux kernel but and I would
> >> > like to test them. But unfortunately, I was not able to find any working
> >> > way of formatting my dist to affs.
> >>
> >> http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/affstools-0.1a.tar.gz contains an mkaffs tool.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps...
> >
> > Hi, thanks, I tried it and it worked neither for files nor for block
> > device nodes, I do not know why. But I've found a different mkfs.affs
> 
> Strange. I did try it yesterday (without mounting the result, though).
> 
> Did you pass a volume name as second parameter?

Actually not, the --help output looks like this:

$ ./mkaffs --help
Usage: mkaffs [OPTION...] devicefile name

and I thought that "devicefile name" means "/dev/vda", I did not figure
out that "name" is another argument.

I decided that it is a piece of old and non-working code and did not try
to look at the source code, but I probably should have to.

Sorry for the noise. 

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Artem Bityutskiy

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