FreeBSD makefs(8) for Linux / *BSD

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FreeBSD makefs(8) + HAMMER2 support + exFAT support

Supported platforms

Linux, Cygwin, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD

Supported file systems

file system	-t option name	original implementation
UFS	ffs (default)	FreeBSD makefs(8)
FAT	msdos	FreeBSD makefs(8)
ISO9660	cd9660	FreeBSD makefs(8)
HAMMER2	hammer2	DragonFly BSD makefs(8)
exFAT	exfat	https://github.com/relan/exfat

Linux / Cygwin specific requirements

• libuuid

• OpenSSL

Build

• By default all supported file systems above are enabled. Use gmake(1) on *BSD.

    $ cd makefs
    $ make
  

• Specify USE_HAMMER2=0 to disable HAMMER2 support.

    $ cd makefs
    $ make USE_HAMMER2=0
  

• Specify USE_EXFAT=0 to disable exFAT support.

    $ cd makefs
    $ make USE_EXFAT=0
  

Notes

• "-t zfs" option in FreeBSD makefs(8) is unsupported.

• mtree(5) parser in makefs(8) requires specification converted by mtree(8) -C option.

    $ ./src/mtree -c -p /path/to/src -R nlink | ./src/mtree -C > spec.mtree
  

License

• src/gpl and src/usr.sbin/makefs/exfat_gpl.c are under GPL v2.

• HAMMER2 and other files derived from DragonFly BSD are under BSDL.

• All other files are under BSDL.