Re: [ros-dev] Idea: File System Options

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- Robert K�pferl <rob(a)koepferl.de> wrote:
>   Please, all, tell me, what are you insisting so much
> on so unimportand 
>  features like transparent encryption and transparent compression. In my 
>  eyes the first step is to have a FS which is better than FAT and allows 
>  ACLs+EA or xattr+posix-acls  (NOTE these are mostly isomorphisms). Most 
>  people can pass on enc+compr at all. Some use it but they can wait or 
>  also pass on it until it can/will be implemented or not implemented. 
>  There exist ways to come around that. Even GPL. See 7zip and TrueCrypt. 
>  For my requirements TrueCrypt beats NTFS-EFS. So why bother. 
If you want to extend vfat support which we have already done in our vfatfs.sys by adding
support
for xbox fatx, then I propose we add Transactional Fat support. The idea was first
proposed on
LKML and then later implement in WinCE.

Thanks
Steven



		
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