Re: 1.3.62 and fat/msdos/vfat observations

Joao Carlos Ventura (jcv@students.fct.unl.pt)
13 Feb 1996 18:11:53 GMT


Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de) wrote:

: 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?

You would still need to use the umsdos fs for those properties. We would
only start using the vfat filenames, that way a more transparent linux fs
could exist.

Question: Is Microsoft going to support the Rock Ridge ISO9660 extensions for
long filenames in CDs????

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