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

2013-11-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
>> According to the 4DOS 'copy' instructions, it does support it: >> >> 4DOS Help Topic: COPY >> /I"text": Select source files by matching text in their >> descriptions. The text can include wildcards and extended >> wildcards. The search text must be enclosed in quotation marks, >>

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

2013-11-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, dmccunney 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 one is damaged. It bypasses the fi

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

2013-11-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, dmccunney 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 one is damaged. It bypasses the file system(s) entirely and > does low level raw dis

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

2013-11-22 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, 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 co

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

2013-11-22 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Also, what are the chances that someone within the FreeDOS community may > one day write a driver for a filesystem which supports extended > attributes? Zero. for a simple reason: there is no functionality ('API') like Get/SetExtendedAttributes in DOS; therefore DOS programs can't support this

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 /I"text": Select source files by matching

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

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

2013-11-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, 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 you m

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) t

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

2013-11-21 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> There is a reference to this on an unrelated forum: >> http://www.drdosprojects.de/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/forum/drp_forum/&cmd=iYz&aK=3756&iZz=3756&gV=0&kQz=&aO=1&iWz=0 >> >> If I understand correctly, this driver is meant to support even ext3

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 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 compatability (multiple d

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

2013-11-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:25 AM, 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 and not s

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

2013-11-20 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: http://www.drdosprojects.de/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/foru

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 so

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" wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > > > > Does FreeDOS support any file system that has customizable metadata > > (also known as extended

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

2013-11-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > > Does FreeDOS support any file system that has customizable metadata > (also known as extended attributes)? The kernel itself only directly supports FAT. Anything else (AFAIK, and I'm no expert) has to come from a loadable driver using the redirec

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, 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 extended att

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

2013-11-19 Thread zalit
On 2013-11-19 23:25, Eric Auer wrote: >There are a > few shells which implement things like long file names and/or > comments for files that way :-) Well, in a way what I was asking about is similar to the comments, with the difference that they are stored within the file itself, not in a separa

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