Re: UVFAT? (Yes, I remember this being kicked around a while ago.)

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
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..

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