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UFS/UFS2 tools on Linux
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This projects aims to provide tools to support UFS
and UFS2
filesystems on Linux .
Look at the few docs I am collecting .
The current status (as of September '04) is as follows:
- ufs2 read only support is included into linux kernel 2.6.5 onwards.
See this README before using .
- A port the FreeBSD libufs library to Linux has been done .
This also includes the mkufs utility to create the ufs filesystem from Linux.
You can get the file from
here .
News !!!
- Apr 12, 2004 : ufs2 code in 2.6.5 has a bug which gives wrong content while reading files beyond ~4mb . Apply this patch to get this corrected.
Update : This has been fixed in 2.6.6-rc1.
- Apr 5, 2004 : The READ-ONLY patches for UFS2 are now included
in mainline kernel 2.6.5 onwards.
See this README before using .
- Jan 13 , 2004 :
I managed to release an early 0.1 version (of libufs and mkufs tool) , just to get things
going . Get the file from
here .
Copyright (C) , Niraj Kumar ( niraj17 at users.sourceforge.net )