SkyOS contributor Peter Speybrouck released his first version of a SkyFS/BFS reader for Windows. This application allows you to view the file structure and copy files from both SkyFS and BFS partitions. Additionally, it can read the file attributes supported by these filesystems. The application does not yet work on Windows Vista.
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Awesome! Tools like these are such a great enhancement for dual booters...
Obviously, this app could be a really useful tool for Haiku as well as SkyOS.
I wonder if Peter would consider allowing Haiku coders to participate in the development of this tool, perhaps helping move it forward a bit quicker?
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I wonder if Peter would consider allowing Haiku coders to participate in the development of this tool, perhaps helping move it forward a bit quicker?
In case you didn't know - Peter based much of his code on what he's learned by reviewing Haiku's OBFS code - he hangs out in #haiku often as well (I won't mention nickname he uses here).
I think I had a short discussion with him about this previously, and he seemed interested in keeping the source closed until it was more functional, possibly opening it up in the future.
Edited 2007-10-03 21:04
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The biggest part of the code (to read the disk) comes from the bfs driver in haiku. That means that it already contains quite some code that should allow writing as well but I have not been experimenting with that part of the code yet.
Since most of the code was already open source, I don't intend to keep it closed.
About Vista support, I'm still stuck with XP so I can't test things easily. It should at least be run as administrator, but it looks like some ntlib functions might be the culprit.
Next thing I want to try to add would be write support.
Ultimate goal would be to make a driver from this application to allow native windows reading/writing of these partitions but don't expect that too soon 
Edited 2007-10-03 22:46 UTC
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