> Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de) wrote:
> : Has VFAT the concepts of permissions and owner/group needed for a=20
> : true UNIX filesystem. That's what came into my mind when thinking=20
> : about booting Linux from VFAT. What about asking Microsoft to switc=
h=20
> : 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 linu=
x fs
> could exist.
I believe a case sensitivity issue would arise, so you'd still need=20
mangling (whenever someone is weird enough to have two files of the sam=
e=20
name with different case in the same directory.. Ok maybe a .c and a .C=
=20
file, I can't see what else..)
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