On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> >If you store your source code on a FAT (MSDOS) filesystem, you can get he
>> >filesystem do do the translation on the fly - 'man mount' for details.
>> >
>> >It might require some fiddling to keep coordinated though.
>>
>> I could be wrong, but I believe Al Viro or someone removed that
>
>"Al Viro?" Sounds like a part of a song from my youth.
Al Viro is a core kernel developer, sorry.. I'm so used to
seeing the names that I assume everyone knows all the main Linux
developers names.
>> feature as it didn't belong in the kernel. I'm not 100% sure
>> though...
>
>It's documented as working on RHL 7.0 (I checked before
>posting). If you want it and it doesn't work, bugzilla it.
I'll take your word for it. My comment was based only on a
discussion from about a year ago on linux-kernel.
>I must confess, when I first saw it (3.0.3 probably) , I
>thought it a dreadful hack and had my doubts about it. However,
>presumably it works, at least in some cases.
>
>I thought Samba did it too, but I couldn't find it in the docs.
Beats me.. I think such code belongs in userland apps, not in
kernel land as it presents serious problems from what I
understand.
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