Commit c54ad9a4 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert befs.txt to ReST

- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add table markups;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3e29ea6df6cd569021cfa953ccb8ed7dfc146f3d.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent c64d3dc6
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
=========================
BeOS filesystem for Linux
=========================
Document last updated: Dec 6, 2001
WARNING
Warning
=======
Make sure you understand that this is alpha software. This means that the
implementation is neither complete nor well-tested.
implementation is neither complete nor well-tested.
I DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY POSSIBLE BAD EFFECTS OF THIS CODE!
LICENSE
=====
This software is covered by the GNU General Public License.
License
=======
This software is covered by the GNU General Public License.
See the file COPYING for the complete text of the license.
Or the GNU website: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html>
AUTHOR
=====
Author
======
The largest part of the code written by Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>
He has been working on the code since Aug 13, 2001. See the changelog for
details.
Original Author: Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>
His original code can still be found at:
<http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/>
Does anyone know of a more current email address for Makoto? He doesn't
respond to the address given above...
This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer.
WHAT IS THIS DRIVER?
==================
This module implements the native filesystem of BeOS http://www.beincorporated.com/
What is this Driver?
====================
This module implements the native filesystem of BeOS http://www.beincorporated.com/
for the linux 2.4.1 and later kernels. Currently it is a read-only
implementation.
Which is it, BFS or BEFS?
================
Be, Inc said, "BeOS Filesystem is officially called BFS, not BeFS".
=========================
Be, Inc said, "BeOS Filesystem is officially called BFS, not BeFS".
But Unixware Boot Filesystem is called bfs, too. And they are already in
the kernel. Because of this naming conflict, on Linux the BeOS
filesystem is called befs.
HOW TO INSTALL
How to Install
==============
step 1. Install the BeFS patch into the source code tree of linux.
......@@ -54,16 +60,16 @@ is called patch-befs-xxx, you would do the following:
patch -p1 < /path/to/patch-befs-xxx
if the patching step fails (i.e. there are rejected hunks), you can try to
figure it out yourself (it shouldn't be hard), or mail the maintainer
figure it out yourself (it shouldn't be hard), or mail the maintainer
(Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>) for help.
step 2. Configuration & make kernel
The linux kernel has many compile-time options. Most of them are beyond the
scope of this document. I suggest the Kernel-HOWTO document as a good general
reference on this topic. http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html
reference on this topic. http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html
However, to use the BeFS module, you must enable it at configure time.
However, to use the BeFS module, you must enable it at configure time::
cd /foo/bar/linux
make menuconfig (or xconfig)
......@@ -82,35 +88,40 @@ step 3. Install
See the kernel howto <http://www.linux.com/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html> for
instructions on this critical step.
USING BFS
Using BFS
=========
To use the BeOS filesystem, use filesystem type 'befs'.
ex)
ex::
mount -t befs /dev/fd0 /beos
MOUNT OPTIONS
Mount Options
=============
============= ===========================================================
uid=nnn All files in the partition will be owned by user id nnn.
gid=nnn All files in the partition will be in group nnn.
iocharset=xxx Use xxx as the name of the NLS translation table.
debug The driver will output debugging information to the syslog.
============= ===========================================================
HOW TO GET LASTEST VERSION
How to Get Lastest Version
==========================
The latest version is currently available at:
<http://befs-driver.sourceforge.net/>
ANY KNOWN BUGS?
===========
Any Known Bugs?
===============
As of Jan 20, 2002:
None
SPECIAL THANKS
Special Thanks
==============
Dominic Giampalo ... Writing "Practical file system design with Be filesystem"
Hiroyuki Yamada ... Testing LinuxPPC.
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......@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations.
afs
autofs
autofs-mount-control
befs
fuse
overlayfs
virtiofs
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