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

Robert de Bath (rd103935@mayday.cix.co.uk)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:59:57 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> 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.

FX: while quick-scanning the list

You know you could do this with a loopback NFS server, a bit like AMD or that
crypto FS do their magic.

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