On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Mark Perry wrote:
> is the cmsfs available for SLES10?

No.

> Because I can't issue a "mount -r -t
> cms /dev/dasdg mnt2" - I get unknown filesystem cms.

Correct.  That is the purpose of the "driver".
When it worked,  it would register a filesystem type "cms".
(See the current list in your kernel with  'cat /proc/filesystems'.)

> The utility commands are very useful, but it would be nice to use
> native Linux commands against the CMS filesystem.

Certainly!  Automounter would make that even better.

> Did/does cmsfs handle EBCDIC-->ASCII conversion,
> or was that left to the user?

Handled by the driver according to filetype.
This then is a problem for filetypes like EXEC.
There is no way for the driver to know if an EXEC is compiled.
It assumed that EXEC was always to be translated.

-- Rick;

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