Re: GNUnification

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>]

Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG
> 
>    From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>
>    Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:40:59 +0100 (BST)
> 
>    UMSDOS is a hideous system.  I'm currently working on code which will
>    allow Linux to drop support for it altogether.  Basically, it's far
>    superior to use a file on an MS-DOS filesystem as a device on which you
>    create an ext2 filesystem.  Hopefully I can sneak this code in under
>    the 2.1 codefreeze (since UMSDOS has major problems in the development
>    kernels) but I've been far too busy recently.
> 
> Well, the Hurd version will just present a fairly vanilla look at the
> DOS filesystem, and not try and make all the Unix semantics appear.
> Perhaps that's called something different in Linux; I'm probably
> confusing two different things here.

Sounds plausible.  Linux has msdosfs which lets you look at DOS
filesystems.  There's also a vfat filesystem to support win95 filenames.
Then there's UMSDOS which has the intention of allowing one to install
without repartitioning one's hard disc.  UMSDOS contains support for
things like symlinks which msdosfs does not hence the confusion.

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