Re: Looking for a project...

Hi,

Dave Hudson <dave@humbug.demon.co.uk> writes:
> FWIW the thing I'd like to see (and if I ever get a spare few hours I'll
> look into doing) would be to write something like the Linux umsdos fs. For
> the non-Linux types on the list, this basically takes a standard dos fs but
> uses a special file (if present) in each subdirectory to manage additional
> attributes such as ownership and to provide additional filename space. The
> beauty of such a system is that it's overlayed on top of the dos fs and
> doesn't stop it from being used normally under dos (it's just some of the
> dos versions of long filenames can look a bit strange).

Note that the ISO-9660 CDROM filesystem does a similar thing. There is
a variable length System Use Area within each directory record to support
extensions to the specification. There is also a protocol, called the System
Use Sharing Protocol or SUSP, for managing this area. Layered on top of the
SUSP, the Rock Ridge extensions define records for long filenames, symbolic
links, and Posix file attributes, etc.

                                        Mike Larson
Received on Thu Sep 22 07:08:23 1994