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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-02-17 17:11:52 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-03-02 14:01:25 -0700
commitc54ad9a4e8faf080e6b395cc4b8298dfc5170255 (patch)
treee87b5b9fd7c273a28a9c13bb733518d58f59fbbc
parentc64d3dc69f38a08d082813f1c0425d7a108ef950 (diff)
docs: filesystems: convert befs.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document and section titles; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add table markups; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3e29ea6df6cd569021cfa953ccb8ed7dfc146f3d.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt)59
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/index.rst1
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst
index da45e6c842b8..79f9740d76ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst
@@ -1,48 +1,54 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=========================
BeOS filesystem for Linux
+=========================
Document last updated: Dec 6, 2001
-WARNING
+Warning
=======
Make sure you understand that this is alpha software. This means that the
-implementation is neither complete nor well-tested.
+implementation is neither complete nor well-tested.
I DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY POSSIBLE BAD EFFECTS OF THIS CODE!
-LICENSE
-=====
-This software is covered by the GNU General Public License.
+License
+=======
+This software is covered by the GNU General Public License.
See the file COPYING for the complete text of the license.
Or the GNU website: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html>
-AUTHOR
-=====
+Author
+======
The largest part of the code written by Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>
He has been working on the code since Aug 13, 2001. See the changelog for
details.
Original Author: Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>
+
His original code can still be found at:
<http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/>
+
Does anyone know of a more current email address for Makoto? He doesn't
respond to the address given above...
This filesystem doesn't have a maintainer.
-WHAT IS THIS DRIVER?
-==================
-This module implements the native filesystem of BeOS http://www.beincorporated.com/
+What is this Driver?
+====================
+This module implements the native filesystem of BeOS http://www.beincorporated.com/
for the linux 2.4.1 and later kernels. Currently it is a read-only
implementation.
Which is it, BFS or BEFS?
-================
-Be, Inc said, "BeOS Filesystem is officially called BFS, not BeFS".
+=========================
+Be, Inc said, "BeOS Filesystem is officially called BFS, not BeFS".
But Unixware Boot Filesystem is called bfs, too. And they are already in
the kernel. Because of this naming conflict, on Linux the BeOS
filesystem is called befs.
-HOW TO INSTALL
+How to Install
==============
step 1. Install the BeFS patch into the source code tree of linux.
@@ -54,16 +60,16 @@ is called patch-befs-xxx, you would do the following:
patch -p1 < /path/to/patch-befs-xxx
if the patching step fails (i.e. there are rejected hunks), you can try to
-figure it out yourself (it shouldn't be hard), or mail the maintainer
+figure it out yourself (it shouldn't be hard), or mail the maintainer
(Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>) for help.
step 2. Configuration & make kernel
The linux kernel has many compile-time options. Most of them are beyond the
scope of this document. I suggest the Kernel-HOWTO document as a good general
-reference on this topic. http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html
+reference on this topic. http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html
-However, to use the BeFS module, you must enable it at configure time.
+However, to use the BeFS module, you must enable it at configure time::
cd /foo/bar/linux
make menuconfig (or xconfig)
@@ -82,35 +88,40 @@ step 3. Install
See the kernel howto <http://www.linux.com/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html> for
instructions on this critical step.
-USING BFS
+Using BFS
=========
To use the BeOS filesystem, use filesystem type 'befs'.
-ex)
+ex::
+
mount -t befs /dev/fd0 /beos
-MOUNT OPTIONS
+Mount Options
=============
+
+============= ===========================================================
uid=nnn All files in the partition will be owned by user id nnn.
gid=nnn All files in the partition will be in group nnn.
iocharset=xxx Use xxx as the name of the NLS translation table.
debug The driver will output debugging information to the syslog.
+============= ===========================================================
-HOW TO GET LASTEST VERSION
+How to Get Lastest Version
==========================
The latest version is currently available at:
<http://befs-driver.sourceforge.net/>
-ANY KNOWN BUGS?
-===========
+Any Known Bugs?
+===============
As of Jan 20, 2002:
-
+
None
-SPECIAL THANKS
+Special Thanks
==============
Dominic Giampalo ... Writing "Practical file system design with Be filesystem"
+
Hiroyuki Yamada ... Testing LinuxPPC.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index c9480138d47e..98de437f5500 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations.
afs
autofs
autofs-mount-control
+ befs
fuse
overlayfs
virtiofs