Re: 1.3.62 and fat/msdos/vfat observations

Luca Berra (bluca@rettore.rett.polimi.it)
Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:28:43 +0100 (MET)

Ulrich Windl said:
>
> Has VFAT the concepts of permissions and owner/group needed for a
> true UNIX filesystem. That's what came into my mind when thinking
> about booting Linux from VFAT. What about asking Microsoft to switch
> to UMSDOS?
>
> Ulrich
>
Nope vfat only adds long file names, and in a way i wished not knowing
not even NT stores permissions on vfat.
I don't believe MS will ever consider changing one of their buggiest
implementation of a file sistem to replace it with something sound.

BTW it is possible to implement umsdos on to of vfat, but how will we
deal with case conflicts: vfat, while storing mixed case filenames is
still wonderfully case insensitive :(

regards,
Luca

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