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04-24-2008

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Originally Posted by uxlunatick

If you will be buying an new operating system, shouldn't you consider getting SCO OpenServer 6.0.0. This is based on UnixWare and is "supposed" to let binary compatibility with OpenServer 5.

Too Pricey . . . Linux, in the enterprise is way more reasonably priced, and better supported. SCO has never given my predecessors any support . . . they always defer to the pc provider. The pc/software provider says asks SCO. Round and Round. . . The only support with which I have any luck are the forums and aplawrence.com.

The applications which we run on the SCO/Win boxes is for customer compatibility. The customer runs the Windows version of the same software. . . at $20k a license. Ours SCO applications' Licenses are long since paid and since they no longer offer support we don't have to pay the maintenance.

In the past, I went on this same search. . .PC-BSD offered some compatibility for the lesser used of the two applications, but not the primary one.

I was just wondering since Caldera 2.4 is still available for sale, and originally designed to replace SCO on the desktop side, if it would be less finicky with SCO specific applications. Also, since it is Linux, if it was possible to upgrade to a modern kernel.

UnitedLinux was another possibility because Caldera pushed that one and my friends at Novell still support it, although not openly. I'm still waiting on their reply as to whether or not my apps would work.

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mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)                                                    System Administration                                                   MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [options] device [block-count]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs filesystem on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).

       The block-count parameter is the desired size of the filesystem, in blocks.  If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be used.

OPTIONS

       -N, --inodes number
              Specify  the  desired  number  of  inodes (at most 512).  If nothing is specified, some default number in the range 48-512 is picked
              depending on the size of the partition.

       -V, --vname label
              Specify the volume label.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F, --fname name
              Specify the filesystem name.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v, --verbose
              Explain what is being done.

       -c     This option is silently ignored.

       -l     This option is silently ignored.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.  Option -V only works as --version when it is the only option.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux                                                           July 2011                                                         MKFS.BFS(8)