30 Sep
2020
30 Sep
'20
3:58 p.m.
From: Liam Proven
Would the x86-32 "reimplementation" of v6
UNIX be able to mount and/or
read-write such filesystems?
No, it looks like it uses a different fie-system layout.
Besides; there's not much point: the big adantage of using V6 is that one can
use the V6 tool-chain to prepare Mini-Unix binaries; XV6 wouldn't allow
that. If all one wants to do is get files in or out, there's already a program
(compilable with gcc, that uses Standard I/O) to read files out of a V6
filesystem. If there was any good need, it could be extended to write
(although that would be non-trivial).
Noel