Port PFS3 to Linux?

[slaapliedje]

I know PFS3 has been open sourced, and that rules.  But I have a request for anyone out there.  Maybe we could start some sort of bounty on it.  But would someone port PFS3 to Linux?  Or possibly even make a driver for Windows.

The reason I ask is, it'd be much easier to make backups / restores of your Amiga partitions if you could just plug it into a Linux machine via a USB bridge, and then use it as a native file system, rather than having to load it up via WinUAE (I'm not sure if FS-UAE has that ability yet, but I haven't tried it).

Anyone else think this is an awesome idea?  I know AFFS is out there for FFS, but I don't know many people who use that anymore (not to mention last I looked, it wasn't included in most Linux distros.)

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[slaapliedje]

@Thomas  That makes sense.  Though I would think Linux at least would be able to handle something.  Windows, well not so much.

@pyrre  This I know, what I was wanting was something outside of WinUAE, mainly because not all features that WinUAE have been ported to the Linux version, though I could be wrong about that, I haven't used FS-UAE in a while.  Last time I tried a Linux UAE, it claimed it had support for the feature, but I could never get it to work, then I read that it wasn't complete.

I would think any full support would of course require a library for the file bits and notes of course.  Do the Linux hosted AROS distros have something like this?

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[slaapliedje]

A filesystem could make the additional attributes show up as .uaem files  (which fs-uae supports). I recently backed up my Amiga UW-SCSI drives  on linux, by mounting them in fs-uae, copying to a emulated "Directory",  and then compressing that, so all permissions are preserved. To restore  back later, I just do it in reverse.    

Having a PFS3 FUSE fs or something on linux would still be a useful thing of course.

Yeah, that's basically what I've been doing with WinUAE, though I just have the emulated directory and have been just doing a straight copy within WinUAE.  Would rather do it in Linux.
Also, yeah, it'd be awesome to have a PFS3 Fuse fs.  After all, there is the AFFS somewhere out there.  Looks like the Debian kernel has the module for AFFS compiled, even with the 3.13 kernel.

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For backups of Amiga drives using Linux just use dd.

That only works if you already have a working setup.  I would like file access so I can edit things, tweak, then put back in my real Amiga.  

Eventually I'm going to look into setting up something like an NFS mount as a drive.  

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