This application is in relation with the following project idea : http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html#fsconsole.

The aim of this project is to write a set of utilities to access and modify a file system image without having to mount it. It would rely on the ukfs library, so as to use the file systems source code from the kernel instead of duplicating it. By doing so, it could benefit from the widely tested sources from the kernel.


The first step of this project is to create a set of tools to access the file system and allow to perform operations such as listing directories and printing files.

The following step consists in developing an enhancement of the first set of tools so as to implement file system modifications. With those tools, the user will be able to create, modify and delete files or directories.

The last part of the project is an interactive command console which would enable the user to access the file system and modify it with the usual commands such as "ls", "mkdir" and so on.