From de11acda1a91bec7da659064ce2ec8f657fac2e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Forte Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 01:15:55 +0700 Subject: system/posixovl: Added (POSIX Overlay Filesystem). Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo --- system/posixovl/README | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 system/posixovl/README (limited to 'system/posixovl/README') diff --git a/system/posixovl/README b/system/posixovl/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d9e3021b45 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/posixovl/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +POSIX Overlay Filesystem (posixovl) + +A FUSE (filesystem in userspace) filesystem that provides POSIX functionality - +UNIX-style permissions, ownership, special files - for filesystems that do not +have such, e.g. vfat. It is a modern equivalent of the UMSDOS fs. + +It provides a filesystem view that supports various POSIX operations while using +an otherwise incapable lower filesystem. Filesystems of various degrees of +POSIXness can be utilitzed. VFAT is a common denominator when it comes to +cross-compatibility, though NTFS — its features are unused in Linux — would be +another possibility. Secondly, potent native POSIX-style filesystems can also +be used, though the actual use of doing that remains to be discovered. -- cgit v1.2.3