I use the french word octet instead of byte, because it is less error prone
(when you read "mb", does-it really mean megabit, or does it mean that the
author is lazy about capitalization?) and a little bit more precise. Tough I
actually am French, I did not start using a French word in English by
myself. I copy a practice of the IETF: the RFCs use octet more than byte.
That is a very good point. If windows can read UDF on hard drives and not
only DVD, UDF could probably supersede FAT completely.
Thank you for pointing me that direction.
I have a Solaris 9 near at hand, and I see a /lib/fs/udfs/fsck, and in the
source tarball of OpenSolaris, I find a directory
usr/src/cmd/fs.d/udfs/fsck/. It does not compile out of the box, but it may
be possible to port it with limited effort.
I agree. I think the VFS layer should process the uid/gid options. By default it should replace nobody with the specified id, and fat and ntfs should just report all files as owned by nobody. Then a new option should be added to force the translation for all ids, not just nobody.
I agree with that (except maybe for the NTFS part, which I do not know; let
us just say "UID-less filesystems"). Maybe a full UID translation system
similar th the one in NFS could be useful, or a generic hook for modules,
but having basic UID overriding would be great.
Unfortunately, the VFS subsystem is something too complex for me at this
time.