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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: BFFS for NetBSD 1.1?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 03:14:15 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- cm5292@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (Steve Casey) writes:
-
- >>Did you try read files beyond the root directory ?
-
- >I found it had some erm, features, that made it a bit annoying. First,
- >it does allow you to write, even though it just destroys, second, it
- >treats links as some sort of hybrid directory if you copy them over
- >to the amiga side, it makes no attempt to preserve permissions as far
- >as I can see. Ahh well, I am rarely in AmigaOS anymore anyway ;)
-
- Well, that's all obvious. Writing doesn't work because a) the format
- changed and b) the writing code is a bit buggy itself (that's why
- the write code was removed for BFFS1.4). It does handle links correctly
- as far as AmigaOS supports links (the "hybrid directory" is what
- AmigaOS does to its own links). And it cannot handle permissions
- as AmigaOS has no concept of a user or group id.
-
- Anyway. When I use BFFS I see the root directory with files and the whole
- tree but only the directories. This was good enough for copying a new
- kernel to the AmigaOS side for booting. But it isn't necessary anymore,
- my own loader can load the kernel directly from the BSD root partition
- without the help from BFFS.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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