File Manager

Nobody III hungryninja101 at ...9...
Wed Oct 29 20:17:29 CET 2014


Thanks. I'm almost ready to get working on making Genode run on my hard
drive, but I still have a few questions:
1. How do I load executables and libraries from a filesystem?

2. How do I access a specific filesystem on a hard drive?

3. Can Genode automatically detect a filesystem's type?
On Oct 29, 2014 11:38 AM, "Norman Feske" <norman.feske at ...1...>
wrote:

> Hello Ben,
>
> > Thanks. I still have one question: Does the vfs plugin support
> > sub-mounts like the Linux kernel does? (E.g. can you mount a root
> > filesystem and then mount other filesystems under it? If so, how do you
> > do it?)
>
> it does. It also supports stacked file systems, which allows you to
> overlay any number of file system over another (a bit like union fs on
> Linux).
>
> If you want a certain file system appear within a specific directory,
> you can use nested '<dir>' nodes to construct the directory structure
> and place other nodes (such as '<fs>') in there. By looking through the
> run scripts, you will find plenty of examples how virtual file systems
> get assembled. Just grep for "vfs" and "fstab".
>
> E.g., in ports/run/noux_bash.run, you can see how the VFS of a noux
> instance is constructed out of the content of several tar archives
> (which happen to have intersecting directory structures) and a few
> custom directories:
>
> Cheers
> Norman
>
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