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

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:14:43 -0500 (CDT)


On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 05:33:44PM -0500, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > 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..
> Um, maybe I'm missing something, but isn't that what UMSDOS is?

UMSDOS is FAT-specific. It gets you nowhere with other non-Unix-like
systems. What I'm proposing is a generic Unix->simple FS mapping layer.

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