Re: KERNEL: New File System Module!!!!!!!
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From: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
To: Debian Devel <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Date: Friday, October 31, 1997 5:40 AM
Subject: KERNEL: New File System Module!!!!!!!
>I have finally done it. I have Win95 and Linux on my system(like many
>others), and love using long file names. I also know that I can have long
>names with umsdos. However, any file that I created with umsdos would
never
>appear with a long name in Win95, only the short. Until now.
>
>Here comes UVFAT. Unix permissions, links, etc on top of Windows95
>partitions. Now, if you create a long name with UVFAT, the file will show
>up properly in Win95! And it took only two days to do it!
>
>For those interested, all I did was copy fs/umsdos to fs/uvfat, used "sed"
>to change all instances of "msdos" to "vfat", and then edited mangle.c to
>conform with vfat name handling.
>
>This was developed with 2.0.31. No patch available yet. I am interested
in
>seeing how many people would like this.
>
>Adam Heath
>adam.heath@usa.net
>http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 -- Page me
>
Now, umssync works with the new file system. I used sed again, and named
the output files uvfatsync, uvfatsetup, uvfatcntl.
I will most likely be making this into a Debian Package(the source patch and
file utitilities), along with sending it to Linus.
Adam Heath
adam.heath@usa.net
http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 -- Page me
ps: Where does one send kernel patches? This is the first one that I have
done and wanted to distribute.
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