[Cbe-oss-dev] [FYI 24/27] ps3: storage driver

[Geoff Levand]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:50, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Yes, there is a filesystem of sorts, 512 byte segments with user preference
>> fields like the 'Other OS' boot flag and static IP addr where random access
>> is need to modify. �The layout is documented in the file
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c, now in powerpc.git.
> 
> I don't think that is what I mean with the term 'file system', it's more
> like a simple header to the custom data than something that can contain
> arbitrary files and that you would mount to a directory.

Yes, a simple header and some custom data pretty much describe it.  There are
some utilities that do raw access to the block device to update the data.  Docs
are here:

http://67.117.136.164/pub/cell/linux-20061110-docs/PlatformSpecificUtilities.html

I could pull the sources out of the iso image if anyone is interested.

-Geoff