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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Date: 22 Nov 1993 05:47:15 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2cpjp3$k89@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <2cgabn$t3n@scunix2.harvard.edu> <pcbsdCGuzuK.FF5@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <pcbsdCGuzuK.FF5@netcom.com> pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager) writes: >Andrew Mendelsohn (mendels1@husc4.harvard.edu) wrote: >: how do you deal with the lack of ownership in the OS/2 >: file systems (FAT & HPFS)? Have you ported the BSD FFS? > >We have managed to add file ownership capabilities to FAT and HPFS. The >mechanism will be published with the release documentation. From personal experience trying to pack data into file systems that weren't designed with the ability to add to the information associated with a file, and that fact that ownership and permissions, etc. are normally stored as file attributes in the inode in BSD FFS and similar file systems, I'd hazard a guess that everything there in FFS but not there in OS/2 will become one of: 1) A field in a single extended attribute. 2) An extended attribute (one per item). PS: I'm glad you are documenting your approach in the release. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.