Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 1996 08:35:48 +0200 | Subject | Re: Extensions to HFS filesystem |
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On 29 Apr 96 at 16:12, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > Since Creator and Type are only applicable to files they are > > not a suitable way to store permissions (besides I don't feel like > > filling in the forms to register 20480 different Types to catch the > > octal representations of all the possible modes). However they would > > provide a way to encode the S_IFMT part of the mode bits, with values > > such as "LINK" for symbolic links and "CHAR" for character devices. > > The actual symbolic link or device numbers would end up as the data in > > the file, which to a Mac would be a normal file. > > I hate the way umsdos does this. Each device file, link, fifo, > and socket, uses a disk cluster. That's often 16 kB per device file, > and /dev has quite a few.
I thought device files were zero-length. And even in DOS/FAT zero-length files do not use any disk cluster (if done correctly). It would just use one entry in emd.
Ulrich
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