Red Bear OS
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Per local/AGENTS.md \xC2\xA7 "Category 2 - Local forks of upstream packages", all Cat 2 forks must use the `<upstream-tag>-rb<N>` version convention. The `-rb1` suffix is a Cargo pre-release identifier that prevents upstream `<upstream-tag>` from silently substituting for this fork in transitive dependency resolution. - The base tag (e.g. 0.9.0 for redox_syscall) tracks upstream unchanged. - The `rb1` part records that one Red Bear patch round has been applied on top of the upstream tag. This is the initial policy enforcement pass. The branch is considered unfrozen at this point; once a freeze is declared, future `-rbN` increments will land on a frozen `0.X.Y` branch per local/AGENTS.md.
RedoxFS
This is the default filesystem of Redox OS inspired by ZFS and adapted to a microkernel architecture.
(It's a replacement for TFS)
Current features:
- Compatible with Redox and Linux (FUSE)
- Copy-on-write
- Data/metadata checksums
- Transparent encryption
- Standard Unix file attributes
- File/directory size limit up to 193TiB (212TB)
- File/directory quantity limit up to 4 billion per 193TiB (2^32 - 1 = 4294967295)
- MIT licensed
- Disk encryption fully supported by the Redox bootloader, letting it load the kernel off an encrypted partition.
Being MIT licensed, RedoxFS can be bundled on GPL-licensed operating systems (Linux, for example).
Install RedoxFS
cargo install redoxfs
You can also build RedoxFS from this repository.
Configure your storage device to allow rootless usage
If you are on Linux you need root permission to acess block devices (storage), but it's recommended to run RedoxFS as rootless.
To do that you need to configure your storage device permission to your user with the following command:
sudo setfacl -m u:your-username:rw /path/to/disk
Create, mount and customize your RedoxFS partition
See the instructions in the book for RedoxFS tooling usage.
Currently RedoxFS tooling are:
redoxfsmount a RedoxFS diskredoxfs-arwrite files to a RedoxFS diskredoxfs-cloneclone a RedoxFS diskredoxfs-mkfscreate an empty RedoxFS diskredoxfs-resizeresize a RedoxFS disk
