Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/06/04:35:16
Once upon a time (on 5 May 97 at 10:48) Pierre Phaneuf said:
> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
>
> > > I vote for showing Unix-like permissions and faking them with weak
> > > filesystems.
> > I vote in favor, too. But there;s no need to fake'em - provided that we
> > implement the "resource" extensions. One of the resources would be an
> > extended attributes doubleword to store all possible attributes.
>
> I mean for the meantime, while we still use a FAT-like FS... When we
Ah, yes.
> implement resources, a doubleword using bitmask isn't such a great idea
> IMHO... While we're at having resources, why not have a "permission"
It was just an idea - yes, you're right, it's not particularily good.
> resource, a "owner" resource, a "group" resource and so on?
I was just trying to imagine a way that would both save space (so that a
resource which needs one bit doesn't take four bytes) and is capable of
storing attributes from many file systems. OTOH, I'm afraid it's impossible
to create a completely transparent FS interface - that would mean every FS
has to have the same features implemented or faked.
What we discuss here is a completely new FS and we can implement/invent
anything we want. But we have to remember that there are other file systems
*we will not* be able to modify.
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