From 1cce17017970c0797943e069cc520e17d068ca4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Krzysztof=20B=C5=82aszkowski?= Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 09:25:12 +0200 Subject: freevxfs: update documentation and cresdits for HP-UX support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Błaszkowski [hch: cosmetic updates] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- fs/freevxfs/Kconfig | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/freevxfs/Kconfig') diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/Kconfig b/fs/freevxfs/Kconfig index 8dc1cd5c1efe..4cc1dd80c3da 100644 --- a/fs/freevxfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/freevxfs/Kconfig @@ -5,12 +5,20 @@ config VXFS_FS FreeVxFS is a file system driver that support the VERITAS VxFS(TM) file system format. VERITAS VxFS(TM) is the standard file system of SCO UnixWare (and possibly others) and optionally available - for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. + for Sunsoft Solaris, HP-UX and many other operating systems. However + these particular OS implementations of vxfs may differ in on-disk + data endianess and/or superblock offset. The vxfs module has been + tested with SCO UnixWare and HP-UX B.10.20 (pa-risc 1.1 arch.) Currently only readonly access is supported. NOTE: the file system type as used by mount(1), mount(2) and fstab(5) is 'vxfs' as it describes the file system format, not the actual driver. + There is a userspace utility for HP-UX logical volumes which makes + creating HP-UX logical volumes easy from HP-UX disk block device file + or regular file with image of the disk. See: + https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-vxfs/ + To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called freevxfs. If unsure, say N. -- cgit v1.2.3