Lately, I've been playing around in v6 unix and mini-unix with a goal of better understanding how things work and maybe doing a little hacking.  As my fooling around progressed, it became clear that moving files into and out of the v6 unix world was a bit tedious.  So it occurred to me that having a way to mount a v6 filesystem under linux or another modern unix would be kind of ideal.  At the same time it also occurred to me that writing such a tool would be a great way to sink my teeth into the details of old Unix code.
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As I expected, this was a fun and very educational project to work on.  It forced me to really understand what was going in the kernel (and to really pay attention to what Lions was saying).  It also gave me a little view into what it was like to work on Unix back in the day.  Hopefully someone else will find my little self-education project useful as well.

--Jay