[nsp] idea: IOS filesystem support in Linux/etc

[Roy]

If your router supports the disk format, you can use flash card as
another drive in a standard Window 2000 system.

Example Cisco page

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/products_installation_guide_chapter09186a008007cbed.html



Edward Henigin wrote:
> Forgive me if someone else has thought of this.  Wouldn't it be
> cool if you could take the PCMCIA flash card out of your Cisco,
> put it into a PCMCIA card slot on your laptop or hooked up to your
> PC, and just natively read/write the filesystem?  I'm guessing that
> Linux/*BSD/etc would be the first/easiest place to implement this.
> Anyone know if it's already been done?
> 
> This could make it much easier to recover from crash problems, or
> to distribute a new image through a data center, etc...
> 
> Ed
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