[plug] CD Audio FileSystem

[Trevor Phillips]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> If you are a good C programmer, you could probably do it yourself in a
> week or two once you understand the kernel filesystem code.

My C's a bit rusty since discovering Perl. ^_^;;;
(Hmmm. A filesystem driver written in Perl? *cackles evilly*)
So, when's the Mini-HOWTO coming out? ^_^

> Unix filesystems and VFAT have slightly different character sets for
> filenames. As an example, one cannot use a filename containing the '\'
> character on a VFAT filesystem. Also, VFAT is only halfway
> case-insensitive, which would cause other problems. There's not a great
> deal to be gained from seating UMSDOS on VFAT as opposed to FAT, but if
> you want partial long-filename support it would be fairly easy to write
> it.

Actually, there's only ONE good reason for needing this at the moment;
Quake2.
I don't have the space or patience to maintain two Quake2 installations.
Actually, more than two; There's work and at home as well. 
At the moment I play Quake2 off a Jaz cartridge which I can cart round
with me. Would be nice to use the one installation for DOS and Windoze,
but the Linux Q2 requires certain file permissions and ownerships set.
Which can't be done on the VFAT volume.

*ponder*
(I suppose I could have the Linux-specific files on a linux drive, and
have the subdirs and other files softlinks to the Jaz. That may work...)

I'm determined to at least get ONE decent game working properly under
Linux. -_^

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