> Also, what are the chances that someone within the FreeDOS community may
> one day write a driver for a filesystem which supports extended
> attributes?
Zero.
for a simple reason: there is no functionality ('API') like
Get/SetExtendedAttributes in DOS; therefore DOS programs can't support
this functionality.
even if some driver for NTFS/EXTx would be written, there's still no
way to Get/SetExtendedAttributes in DOS.
there DO exist drivers for NTFS, but only for (well defined) reading/writing
> Not necessarily support for a standard filesystem (ext2,
> ext3, etc), mind you. A homebrew filesystem too would be good enough, I
> guess.
as all programs that support EA information have to be written by
yourself (they simply don't exist), the easiest way to implement would
probably be to write the EA information into some file EA_INFO.DAT,
similar to 4DOS, Norton Commander or similar.
nothing the kernel is required to do.
Tom
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