How to read v6 distribution tapes?

[John F Haugh II]

In article <2945 at charon.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>What I did do a long time ago was to write a program that would look at the
>disk image on file and convert it to a complete directory structure.  The
>trick is to find inode #2 and start from there.  I do not know, but perhaps,
>if I look long enough in my archives,  the program might even be sitting
>somewhere.

The v7 and v6 filesystems are very different.  While the v7 filesystem
has been described at great length in literature, I've never seen anything
describing the v6 filesystem in any published document that can be repeated
without violating licensing agreements.

For example, the root inode in a v6 filesystem is inode 1 ...
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