It provides read and write and create support, for the types that are
reasonably supportable. The description is on
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/linux/vfat-symlink/vfat-symlink.readme
and the patch is next to it.
> symlinks. Would tar create the .lnk files if it was extracting to vfat? If the
Right. The patch adds support for creating symlinks via .lnk files.
> patch gives symlink support in some other way than .lnk files, why can't we just
> use that and not meddle with reading the .lnk files to allow Linux to run in a
> vfat partition.
Well, because the .lnk approach in the patch is compatible both with
the Windows behaviour and the cygwin behaviour, you're getting rather
transparent symlink support.
> This is why I think MS will (and are) killing FAT 32 as quickly as they can (the
> last properly understood MS filesystem...). To really entice users from Windows
That may be true but the notebook I got last October came with Win ME
-- just FAT32, no NTFS. So they may be killing it but it's still
around and it will be for some time to come.
> in the future, this kind of patch is going to have to work on NTFS, not FAT.
> Now that the NT codebase is the "home" codebase as well (with the advent of XP),
> NTFS is going to take massive inroads into FAT's market share. And there have
> been rumours for a while that MS SQL Server is going to form the basis of the
> next MS filesystem.
Can't comment on that as I don't have NTFS handy. The patch makes it
possible to mount vfat aprtition in such a way that .lnk files are not
shown as a binary mess but as a symlink, the same way they look (from
user's perspective) in Windows and in cygwin.
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