[rtems-users] Re: tar filesystem

Till Straumann strauman at slac.stanford.edu
Mon Feb 7 19:14:49 UTC 2005


D. Peter Siddons wrote:

>  It has been on my to-do list to use this feature for some time, for a
>  similar application to Eric's. Since the calls are documented in the
>  manuals I had assumed they existed! Naive, I suppose... Pete.


I am using rtems_tarfs_load() in my GeSys application (RTEMS-4.6.2/psim)
and it works fine... It also builds without hacking.

-- Till


>
>
>  Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:41 -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >
> >
> >> FYI .. this was sent to rtems-users at OARcorp.com not rtems.com.
> >> They are separate domains and machines now. :)
> >>
> >> Eric Norum wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Why is cpukit/libfs/src/imfs/imfs_load_tar.c no longer being
> >>> built? It looks like just the thing I need for my standalone
> >>> EPICS IOC.
> >>>
> >>
> >> My guess is probably just an accidental oversight in some
> >> Makefile.am updates.
> >>
> >
> > Probably, I don't know. Digging CVS-history shows it had been
> > disabled a very long time ago, and nobody seems to have missed it
> > :(
> >
> >
> >
> >> The 4.7 tree uses a lot fewer Makefile.am's and something might
> >> have been missed.
> >>
> >> From what I see it also could be some unfinished work, because it
> >> shares
> >
> > a lot of code with libmisc/untar (Definitely something to be worth
> > looking after).
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >






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