TFFS is a FUSE driver enabling users to mount a T*PFIELD digital satellite receiver's hard disk.
So far, tffs has only been tested with the T*PFIELD PVR4000, and it may or may not work with other models. However, if users have another T*PFIELD device and can provide a patch for supporting it, the software's creator is willing to include it in tffs.
In order to use tffs, the kernel must include FUSE support, which has been a part of the official Linux kernel since version 2.6.14. For older versions, FUSE can be acquired separately to be compiled as a kernel module.
Tffs only consists of one program: mount.tffs, which can only be invoked as a superuser. Users must consult the man page for the exact synopsis of the mount.tffs command. To give other users access to the T*PFIELD file system, users must provide the "allow_other" mount option.
To mount the T*PFIELD hard disk to a directory and give other users access, users can use the "mount.tffs /dev/sdb /mnt -o allow_other" command, where /dev/sdb is the device file corresponding to the T*PFIELD hard disk and /mnt is the directory in which the disk is being mounted. The umount /mnt command can be used to unmount the file system or by killing the mount.tffs process.
For convenience, users may also add a line to /etc/fstab to ease mounting and make it possible for non-privileged users. Finally, if mount.tffs is installed in the /sbin directory, it can be called through the regular mount program (/bin/mount) by specifying "-t tffs," making it easy to configure an automounter for mounting a T*PFIELD disk.
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