Hi!
> > Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card, you
> > really want to have VFAT there, so that it is a) compatible with
> > windows and b) so that you don't kill the hardware.
>
> VFAT is plenty good at killing hardware. It's a terrible filesystem for
> flash cards (if th
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:46:29PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card, you
> really want to have VFAT there, so that it is a) compatible with
> windows and b) so that you don't kill the hardware.
VFAT is plenty good at killing hardware. It's
On 8/22/05, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT.
> >
> > Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane
> > filesystems linux supports.
>
> Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card,
Hi!
> > This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT.
>
> Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane
> filesystems linux supports.
Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card, you
really want to have VFAT there, so that it is a) compatible wi
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:52:23PM +0900, Hiroyuki Machida wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:03AM +0900, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote:
> >>This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT.
> >
> >
> >Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the
I'm trying to explain background
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:03AM +0900, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote:
This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT.
Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane
filesystems linux supports.
I woul
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:03AM +0900, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote:
>
> This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT.
Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane
filesystems linux supports.
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This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT.
I made a couple of changes from previous revision, according
feedbacks on LKML.
- clean up
- restrict file attribute operations to prevent attribute lose at
runtime.
- added condition checking to special files like device files
an
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Please confirm my understanding.
> You sugessted that symlink should not have ATTR_SYS, to prevent
> some over 4KB files created in DOS/WIN to be treated as symlinks?
NACK, files longer than 4KB should not be symlinks, and maybe
Bodo Eggert wrote:
Hiroyuki Machida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For newly created and/or modified files/dirs, system can utilize
full posix attributes, because memory resident inode storage can
hold those. After umount-mount cycle, system may lose some
attributes to preserve VFAT format.
Ino
Hiroyuki Machida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For newly created and/or modified files/dirs, system can utilize
> full posix attributes, because memory resident inode storage can
> hold those. After umount-mount cycle, system may lose some
> attributes to preserve VFAT format.
Inodes may be reclai
Ogawa-san and FAT developpers,
Here is a patch to enable posix file attribute mapping to VFAT attributes,
with restrictions.
Main purpose of this patch is to build root file system with VFAT for small
embedded device. FAT is widely used for embedded device to exchange data,
and also small embedde
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