QNX Technical Articles

Date of this edition: August 08, 2005

Target OS: QNX^® Neutrino^® 6.3.0 SP1

Host OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or SP2, 2000 SP4, or NT SP6a; Sun Solaris 7, 8, or 9; QNX^® Neutrino^® 6.3.0 SP1; Linux Red Hat 8, 9, or Enterprise WS 3 or 4

If you're using QNX Momentics SP1 and the Flash Filesystem & Embedding TDK 1.1.0, you need to install this patch. It affects only mketfs. For the most up-to-date version of these notes, log into your myQNX account, and then go to the Download Center area of www.qnx.com.

Contents

• What's in this patch?
• Fixed issues
• Known issues
• Technical support

Throughout this document, you may see reference numbers associated with particular issues, changes, etc. When corresponding with our Technical Support staff about a given issue, please quote the relevant reference number. You might also find the reference numbers useful for tracking issues as they become fixed.

What's in this patch?

This patch contains the following binaries, installed under $QNX_HOST/ in the subdirectories for each supported host OS:

• Windows
  • win32/x86/usr/bin/mkxfs.exe
  • win32/x86/usr/bin/mkefs.exe
  • win32/x86/usr/bin/mkifs.exe
  • win32/x86/usr/bin/mketfs.exe
• QNX Neutrino
  • qnx6/x86/bin/mkxfs
• Linux
  • linux/x86/usr/bin/mkxfs
• Solaris:
  • solaris/sparc/usr/bin/mkxfs

On QNX Neutrino, Linux, and Solaris hosts, mkxfs is the binary for the mkefs, mketfs, and mkifs utilities.

Fixed issues

This patch addresses the following issues:

• mkxfs now correctly parses for the ETFS buildfile attributes. (Ref# 24147)
• The ETFS filesystem no longer faults in io_fdinfo(). (Ref# 24213)
• mketfs now correctly embeds IFS image files on Windows hosts. (Ref# 25770)

Known issues

• If you run mkefs and specify the type=fifo attribute, the command appears to work but creates an unloadable image. (Ref# 19214)

Technical support

If you have any questions, comments, or problems with a QNX product, please contact Technical Support. For more information, see the How to Get Help chapter of the Welcome to QNX Momentics guide or visit our website, www.qnx.com.