From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:32:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from p508B7AB5.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.139.122.181]:42116 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:32:06 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8QLVvo31298; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:31:57 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:31:57 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Alex deVries Cc: Florian Lohoff , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Format of bootable Indy CDs? Message-ID: <20020926233157.A30002@linux-mips.org> References: <3D92B80A.3080802@linuxcare.com> <20020926171033.GA13337@paradigm.rfc822.org> <3D935DE6.7020206@linuxcare.com> <20020926225611.A26300@linux-mips.org> <3D937609.3010201@linuxcare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D937609.3010201@linuxcare.com>; from adevries@linuxcare.com on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:03:05PM -0400 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 274 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:03:05PM -0400, Alex deVries wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:20:06PM -0400, Alex deVries wrote > >>What open source tools do we have to create such an EFS filesystem? > > > > None. The in-kernel EFS filesystem is read-only. > > Okay. Let me look at that. > > EFS seems pretty simple, but is there a filesystem described apart from > the .h files? No. EFS is not a very complex filesystem, roughly as complex as for example UFS. However later PROMs also know about XFS I think and that's the trivial case. Anyway, as afair the EFS CDROMs are partitioned like disks a bootloader there could also be made to contain something like libext2fs and boot the rest of a ext2 on the CDROM. ISOfs if you have a nice library to use for that. Ralf