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Beta Stage it is. The OpenBeOS BFS team is the second team to reach beta stage in their quest for R1.

OBFS is complete, feature wise, and now it just needs a LOT of testing and debugging. Hence the "we want you!" bit i wrote in the header, don't want you to get any weird ideas...

From the OpenBeOS site (if you ask me the url i'll wack you over the head) you can see what they would like YOU to do. Yes you, the user, the "joe user", you don't have to be a coder to help you know, and not just with OBFS, though it's about it we're talking about right now. So get in gear and start testing, stressing and just giving it a hard time, and report back to the devs.

Detailed instructions can be found here: [url]http://www.bug-br.org.br/openbfs/index.phtml?section=testing[/url]

Great work everyone, we all look forward to more updates like this one.
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bbjimmy · Pencil Pusher Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 10

UPDATE 2: Just a quick mention of the command you must use to get the OBFS source:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver::/cvsroot/open-beos co BeFS
Good luck and start testing.

This builds an old obfs not the one that needs to be tested. I have yet to figure out how to get the bfs from the current directory. If they want help testing, they should post the binary file.

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misza · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 8:56 am3 Post subject: Naive

The OpenBFS crew are so naive in thinking that they're going to get people testing fine with these initial paltry instructions to download and compile it. The current source is in current/src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs which they should have mentioned. I wrote a little script that will grab the OpenBeOS source tree & compile obfs.

#!/bin/sh

cvs -z3 -d:pserver::/cvsroot/open-beos co current
cd current
cd src/tools/jam
make
cp bin.beosx86/jam ~/config/bin
cp bin.beosx86/mkjambase ~/config/bin
cd ../../../
./configure
cd src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs
jam
cp ../../../../../distro/x86.R1/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs/obfs ~/config/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/

maybe that will help someone. But anyhow, there's a binary on there page now (afaik).
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pasha · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 11:51 am4 Post subject: since..

my U2W SCSI System Disk went to Nirvana after testing obfs, I hardly will test it until a release is out. Sorry folks.
Think they'va got to do some homework....
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Jace · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 2:01 am5 Post subject: Yikes

Thanks for the warning Pasha. I have SCSI U2W too.
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pasha · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:05 pm6 Post subject:

No matter, Jace.
Hope they will fix it soon....
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