Usage notes

• Haiku has no /usr/bin/env (or /usr/bin!), but it does have /bin/env: mkdir -p /usr/bin; ln -s /bin/env /usr/bin/env
• All the automated tests pass, except it's skipping the (parts of the) tests related to device files - because the Haiku R1A2-included cpython doesn't have os.major or os.minor.
• There doesn't appear to be a functional network filesystem in Haiku R1 alpha 2.
  • I see nothing suggesting that sshfs is supported.
  • Apparently someone was working on a CIFS client for Haiku, but that stalled.
  • There's at least a modicum of support for NFS, but it seems broken - I get "No such file or directory" when trying to mount via either of two methods.
• However in Haiku R1 alpha 3 RC r41650 you can:
  • mount_nfs 10.10.10.10:/mnt/backshift /mnt/backshift 0 0
  • ...where the first 0 is the root uid, and the second 0 is the root gid
  • I used the following in my Linux server's /etc/exports:
    • 10.10.10.11(rw,sync,no_root_squash,insecure)
• R1 alpha 3 RC r41650 came with xz ^_^
• Haiku kernel panics when I attempt to back up over NFS. I've filed a bug report about this here.

Development notes

• Start an sshd
• Had to switch to 82540EM network adapter (emulated by VirtualBox) to get networking functional.
• installoptionalpackage vim
• Came with svn :)
• gcc has problems on Haiku alpha 2, so just use the system python.
• BFS' on-disk datastructures do not support hardlinks.
• R1 alpha 3 still has compilation problems; in particular, "hello world" fails to link.