patch-1.3.22 linux/fs/umsdos/README

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• Date: Thu Jan 1 02:00:00 1970
• Orig file: v1.3.21/linux/fs/umsdos/README
• Orig date: Tue Jan 31 09:39:02 1995

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-Very short explanation for the impatient!!!
-
-Umsdos is a file system driver that run on top the MSDOS fs driver.
-It is written by Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)
-
-Umsdos is not a file system per se, but a twist to make a boring
-one into a useful one.
-
-It gives you:
-
-	long file name
-	Permissions and owner
-	Links
-	Special files (devices, pipe...)
-	All is need to be a linux root fs.
-
-There is plenty of documentation on it in the source. A formated document
-made from those comments is available from
-sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/umsdos.
-
-Mostly...
-
-You mount a DOS partition like this
-
-mount -t umsdos /dev/hda3 /mnt
-         ^
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-
-All option are passed to the msdos drivers. Option like uid,gid etc are
-given to msdos.
-
-The default behavior of Umsdos is to do the same thing as the msdos driver
-mostly passing commands to it without much processing. Again, this is
-the default. After doing the mount on a DOS partition, nothing special
-happen. This is why all mount options are passed to the Msdos fs driver.
-
-Umsdos use a special DOS file --linux-.--- to store the information
-which can't be handle by the normal MsDOS file system. This is the trick.
-
---linux-.--- is optional. There is one per directory.
-
-**** If --linux-.--- is missing, then Umsdos process the directory the
-     same way the msdos driver do. Short file name, no goodies, default
-     owner and permissions. So each directory may have or not this
-     --linux-.---
-
-Now, how to get those --linux-.---.
-
-\begin joke_section
-
-	Well send me a directory content
-	and I will send you one customised for you.
-	$5 per directory. Add any applicable taxes.
-\end joke_section
-
-A utility umssync creates those. The kernel maintain them. It is available
-from the same directory above (sunsite) in the file umsdos_progs-0.7.tar.gz.
-A compiled version is available in umsdos_progs-0.7.bin.tar.gz.
-
-So in our example, after mounting mnt, we do
-
-umssync .
-
-This will promote this directory (a recursive option is available) to full
-umsdos capabilities (long name ...). A ls -l before and after won't show
-much difference however. The file which were there are still there. But now
-you can do all this:
-
-	chmod 644 *
-	chown you.your_groupe *
-	ls >THIS_IS.A.VERY.LONG.NAME
-	ln -s toto tata
-	ls -l
-
-Once a directory is promoted, all subdirectory created will inherit that
-promotion.
-
-What happen if you boot DOS and create files in those promoted directories ?
-Umsdos won't notice new files, but will signal removed file (it won't crash).
-Using umssync in /etc/rc will make sure the DOS directory is in sync with
-the --linux-.---.
-
-It is a good idea to put the following command in your RC file just
-after the "mount -a":
-
-	mount -a
-	/sbin/umssync -i+ -c+ -r99 /umsdos_mount_point
-
-	(You put one for each umsdos mount point in the fstab)
-
-This will insure nice operation. A umsdos.fsck is in the making,
-so you will be allowed to managed umsdos partition in the same way
-other filesystem are, using the generic fsck front end.
-
-Hope this helps!
-