> > 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..
> Actually, maybe something similar to Rockridge is the way to go. If
> in each directory you put a TRANS.TBL file which could contain the
Excuse me??? What has TRANS.TBL have to do with Rockridge?
This is the second time in two weeks that I've seen this silly mixup
somewhere. TRANS.TBL has nothing to do with Rockridge. Rockridge
uses the SUSP and RR supplimental records in iso9660 while TRANS.TBL
is simply an ascii mapping table. If you are using mkisofs to build
your CD image, you will notice that there are two totally independent
options for Rockridge (-r and -R) or TRANS.TBL (-T).
Maybe you are suggesting a TRANS.TBL like scheme but let's not
insult Rockridge by calling it Rockridge...
> native <-> long case-sensitive filenames, and another file, say
> PERMS.TBL, which contains the permissions, ownership, and other
> attributes that need to be stored. If this was done, it would be
> possible to overlay this on pretty much any FS. Not the most elegant
> solution, but it would be useful.
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Mike
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