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BFS FILESYSTEM FOR LINUX ======================== The BFS filesystem is used by SCO UnixWare OS for the /stand slice, which usually contains the kernel image and a few other files required for the boot process. In order to access /stand partition under Linux you obviously need to know the partition number and the kernel must support UnixWare disk slices (CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL config option). However BFS support does not depend on having UnixWare disklabel support because one can also mount BFS filesystem via loopback: # losetup /dev/loop0 stand.img # mount -t bfs /dev/loop0 /mnt/stand where stand.img is a file containing the image of BFS filesystem. When you have finished using it and umounted you need to also deallocate /dev/loop0 device by: # losetup -d /dev/loop0 You can simplify mounting by just typing: # mount -t bfs -o loop stand.img /mnt/stand this will allocate the first available loopback device (and load loop.o kernel module if necessary) automatically. If the loopback driver is not |
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loaded automatically, make sure that you have compiled the module and that modprobe is functioning. Beware that umount will not deallocate /dev/loopN device if /etc/mtab file on your system is a symbolic link to /proc/mounts. You will need to do it manually using "-d" switch of losetup(8). Read losetup(8) manpage for more info. |
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To create the BFS image under UnixWare you need to find out first which slice contains it. The command prtvtoc(1M) is your friend: # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0b0t0d0s0 (assuming your root disk is on target=0, lun=0, bus=0, controller=0). Then you look for the slice with tag "STAND", which is usually slice 10. With this information you can use dd(1) to create the BFS image: # umount /stand # dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0b0t0d0sa of=stand.img bs=512 Just in case, you can verify that you have done the right thing by checking the magic number: # od -Ad -tx4 stand.img | more The first 4 bytes should be 0x1badface. If you have any patches, questions or suggestions regarding this BFS implementation please contact the author: |
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Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> |