Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

From: Aaron Hall (lisps_at_vitaphone.net)
Date: 10/18/04

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    On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Derrick Hudson wrote:

    > Note that in moving files from the Mac fs (UFS is old Macintosh, isn't
    > it?) that you may need to set UNIX properties on the ext2 system such
    > as owner and permission bits because, AFAIK, the Mac fs doesn't store
    > that sort of information.

    Not quite. UFS seems to be some synonym for BSD's FFS, or maybe a further
    development of FFS. Mac OS X can use it because of its BSD connections.

    The predominant Mac filesystem is HFS+, which does Unix-style owners and
    modes, but isn't inode-based (it emulates them for the sake of OS X in
    circumstances where it matters). The older Mac filesystem is HFS, which
    had 32-char filenames and no concept of ownership.

    FWIW. :)

    - Aaron 

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