Dear All,
Just thinking - it would be really neat to get a Linux "live-CD" working
with a USB stick, and SMB. Sort of like Qemu-Puppy, or
damnsmalllinux-embedded do. BUT...
DSL/PuppyLinux both use a loopback filesystem and a disk image for
/home. This works well, but the disk-image is hard to work with from the
host.
It would be much much neater to use SMB, and a regular directory, since
this allows /home to be a regular directory, accessible:
- from the host (as a normal directory)
- from the guest (via SMB)
- from the pendrive, when booted directly.
BUT, the pendrive has to be formatted with VFAT, in order to be Windows
compatible. So, at last, my question:
"Is there any way to get QEMU's SMB server to support Unix filesystem
semantics (permissions, case-sensitive, symlinks, owners) while the data
is actually stored on a VFAT filesystem?"
- I know about UMSDOS, but it's now defunct.
- Permissions,ownerships aren't so important, but symlinks, and
avoiding clashes between filenames with case-differences are.
Alternatively, now that Qemu has rw support for virtual FAT, could it be
done this way? Alternatively, how about supporting an ext2 partition?
Thanks for your advice - QEMU is brilliant!
Richard
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