Accessing BFS outside of Haiku

What is FUSE? FUSE is an acronym for "Filesystem in USErspace" and in essence allows an operating system to communicate with a file system through a userland progam. By providing this functionality outside of kernel space, adding support for a new filesystem is a simple matter of installing the respective FUSE module. As a comparison, the typical paradigm involves altering the operating system's kernel to support the filesystem. For more information, visit the FUSE project page.

The initial implementation of a BFS FUSE module was added in hrev31409

Pre-requisites

APT-based GNU/Linux Distribution (Debian, Ubuntu...)

sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev

BSD Based Distribution

sudo portinstall sysutils/fusefs-kmod sysutils/fusefs-libs

Building the BFS FUSE module from source

cd /path/haiku/haiku/
jam '<build>bfs_fuse'

Mounting your BFS partition

In this example, /dev/sdaX is the BFS partition you wish to mount.

mkdir /path/to/mountPoint
/path/to/bfs_fuse /dev/sdaX /path/to/mountPoint

At this point, your BFS partition should be mounted at /path/to/mountPoint.