Re: converting old style ufs to ext2
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Derrick Hudson wrote:
Note that in moving files from the Mac fs (UFS is old Macintosh, isn't
it?) that you may need to set UNIX properties on the ext2 system such
as owner and permission bits because, AFAIK, the Mac fs doesn't store
that sort of information.
Not quite. UFS seems to be some synonym for BSD's FFS, or maybe a further
development of FFS. Mac OS X can use it because of its BSD connections.
The predominant Mac filesystem is HFS+, which does Unix-style owners and
modes, but isn't inode-based (it emulates them for the sake of OS X in
circumstances where it matters). The older Mac filesystem is HFS, which
had 32-char filenames and no concept of ownership.
FWIW. :)
- Aaron
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