Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Test Disk is designed to recover *partitions*, not files. It searches for backup copies of the partition table and does substitutions when the main

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) Also, what are the chances that someone within the FreeDOS community may one day write a driver for a filesystem which supports extended attributes? Not necessarily support for a standard filesystem (ext2, ext3, etc), mind you. A homebrew filesystem too would be good enough, I guess.

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Eric Auer, Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:18:08 +0100: As far as I know, 4DOS does not support commands like copy all files with rollercoaster in the description to drive X: According to the 4DOS 'copy' instructions, it does support it: 4DOS Help Topic: COPY /Itext: Select source files by matching text

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-22 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, za...@gmx.com wrote: On 2013-11-22 00:46, Rugxulo wrote: I suggest you just try to use a user-space program like TestDisk. I haven't used it much, but in minimal testing it did seem to access my

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:25 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: I probably found what I was looking for: the COMBOOTF.IMA file from Lucho utilities. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/dos/lucho.html But I could not find any documentation. I'm pretty sure this is the Paragon driver

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:08 AM, patrick patterson prpat...@peoplepc.com wrote: hello all. longtime reader, first time poster this is something I have been thinking about for a long time. I think it needs to be a part of long file name support, which seems to be pretty messy for

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-21 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: There is a reference to this on an unrelated forum: http://www.drdosprojects.de/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/forum/drp_forum/cmd=iYzaK=3756iZz=3756gV=0kQz=aO=1iWz=0 If I understand correctly, this driver is meant to support even

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-21 Thread zalit
On 2013-11-22 00:46, Rugxulo wrote: I suggest you just try to use a user-space program like TestDisk. I haven't used it much, but in minimal testing it did seem to access my ext3 partition correctly. Does the TestDisk solution that you mentioned give full access (i.e. both read and write) to

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, za...@gmx.com wrote: On 2013-11-22 00:46, Rugxulo wrote: I suggest you just try to use a user-space program like TestDisk. I haven't used it much, but in minimal testing it did seem to access my ext3 partition correctly. Does the TestDisk solution that

[Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-20 Thread patrick patterson
hello all. longtime reader, first time poster this is something I have been thinking about for a long time. I think it needs to be a part of long file name support, which seems to be pretty messy for compatability (multiple directory entries to carry extra characters in the name). since only 5

Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-20 Thread zalit
On 2013-11-20 05:45, Rugxulo wrote: I vaguely recall (but never tried) that there used to be such a (shareware?) DOS driver from Paragon Software [EDIT: IFSDRV?] that could read ext2 and some others. This would be a good solution. Only, in order to be useful such a driver should target some

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-20 Thread zalit
I probably found what I was looking for: the COMBOOTF.IMA file from Lucho utilities. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/dos/lucho.html But I could not find any documentation. There is a reference to this on an unrelated forum:

Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-20 Thread Louis Santillan
Ext2 is forward compatible with ext3. There's simple migration tools builtin to mkfs.ext3 on Linux, iirc. Then ext3 is forward compatible with ext4 with similar tools. So it's kind of a Canadian cross situation but you could you'll always be able to get access to an ext2 partition from Linux.

Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Hi Eric. Extended attributes (often abbreviated as xattr) are a given in all modern file systems. Basically, extended attributes are metadata fields which, in addition to the standard fields (date_created, date_modified, size, read_only, hidden, etc), the user can arbitrarily create,

Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Evans
I do not think so, maybe the devs can implement ea_attrib file support On Nov 18, 2013 9:43 PM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hello Does FreeDOS support any file system that has customizable metadata (also known as extended attributes)? All modern file systems do. The only feature that I need is

Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Evans
Just make kernel use /ea_attrib.dat with file name and a bit wise word for storing attributes bits On Nov 19, 2013 8:46 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Does FreeDOS support any file system that has customizable metadata

[Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-18 Thread zalit
Hello Does FreeDOS support any file system that has customizable metadata (also known as extended attributes)? All modern file systems do. The only feature that I need is extended attributes, so I don't care about journaling or other features. Thanks Reno