Messages in this thread | | | From | "Slyglif Cain" <> | Subject | Re: UVFAT? (Yes, I remember this being kicked around a while ago.) | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:09:46 -0700 |
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From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:33:44 -0500 (CDT)
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Eric Princen wrote: > > > Question: Is there a UVFAT type thing to allow permissions and > > user.group on fat32 partitions? Was I just ignorant and missed > > it? > > Question2: Does the massive UMSDOS patch address this and I am > > merely wasting everybody's time? > > I don't know the answer to this, but perhaps a better approach > would be to create a Unix-on-top-of-* FS so that you can have > Unix-like semantics on any filesystem, including FAT, VFAT, HPFS, > HFS, SMB, NCPFS, CD-ROMs without using Rockridge, etc..
Actually, maybe something similar to Rockridge is the way to go. If in each directory you put a TRANS.TBL file which could contain the native <-> long case-sensitive filenames, and another file, say PERMS.TBL, which contains the permissions, ownership, and other attributes that need to be stored. If this was done, it would be possible to overlay this on pretty much any FS. Not the most elegant solution, but it would be useful.
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