From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 10:48:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA21897 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:48:35 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA21892 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:48:32 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA05919; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:44:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511171844.LAA05919@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Windows 95 filespace support? To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:44:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, patj@sierra.valleynet.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511171829.AA25222@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Nov 17, 95 10:29:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1016 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > The current beta mtools support VFAT filesystems... Yes. It's relatively trivial, other than short/long name synchronization and the short name numeric tail generation mechanism. I'm certain the mtools code doesn't do case conversion or case sensitivity on long name storage but not on long name lookup, and I'm sure that it doesn't handle Unicode case range vector tables. > There's also an xmsdos file system for linux to look at... Less useful because any derivitive work from that would be GPL'ed. > You can still read/write the files, but they're in the > munged form (each "long file name" has a corresponding 8+3 name). Yep. What's wanted is a mechanism for accessing either or both from a UNIX interface, and then choose one based on FS composition using VFS layers. The same thing goes for UMSDOS support of the --linix-.--- long name and metadata support. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.