topic Re: Mount HTFS and EAFS under linux in Operating System - Linux

Mount HTFS and EAFS under linux

'chris' — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:27:44 GMT

hi

Howto to mount HTFS and EAFS (from SCO UNIX) under linux?

Re: Mount HTFS and EAFS under linux

Matti_Kurkela — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:45:29 GMT

As far as I know, there is no support for those filesystems in the Linux kernel.

In 2003, the owner of the SCO UNIX code (currently The SCO Group, previously known as Caldera) started a series of lawsuits, alleging (among other things) that Linux includes some of SCO Group's copyrighted code. Although some of the lawsuits are still going on, so far the SCO Group hasn't been able to prove their allegations at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies

Since 2003, I'd guess no serious Linux kernel programmer has been inclined to touch anything SCO-related even with the proverbial 10-foot pole, to avoid becoming entangled to those lawsuits.

Before those lawsuits (and their countersuits...) have reached their ultimate conclusion, I believe the chance of someone implementing HTFS or EAFS support for Linux is somewhere between slim and none.

MK

Re: Mount HTFS and EAFS under linux

Jan Soska — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:22:01 GMT

Great post Matti

Jan

Re: Mount HTFS and EAFS under linux

'chris' — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:14:07 GMT

Here was a module to mount HTFS under linux:

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0106.2/0281.html

but the download link is death:

http://deresz.dhs.org/~deresz/filesystems/htfs_fs/htfs_fs-0.01alpha.tar.bz2