Speaking of Unix, unbundling, etc...

[Brandon S. Allbery]

On unbundling:

I have never used *troff, pic, *eqn, etc. and rarely used tbl or nroff with
anything except man page source.  DWB and WWB could be replaced with a
small, fast program to format the majority of man pages without affecting me
or most others that I know.

On a tangent of sorts...

Given, the file system switch.  We also have header files for both the
"generic" data structures and the S51K file system.  We also get the ability
to relink the kernel with our own additions.

Query:  Is it too much to ask that some kind of information be available to
show how one would write one's own filesystem code for the FSS *for a
particular implementation*?  I'd like to be able to mount some disks from a
foreign *nix; the low-level format is readable, but the filesystem isn't.
I'd also be interested in implementing an MS-DOS filesystem.  (Of course,
certain operations like link() wouldn't be supported on such a filesystem.)

No doubt this is available from AT&T... for 3B2s.  Would it be any good for
non-AT&T system architectures?
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