Re: [linuxdc-dev] VMU filesystem question

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* David Willmore <dav...@ia...> on Sun, Dec 08, 2002:

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> description when I get a moment--have to go finish makeing dinner. :)
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How does this help you when transferring files to/from a filesystem that
doesn't understand this information, like NFS?  Or when transferring saves
around across the network?

The solution would be a user space tool that understood and could transfer
files between full VMU images (whether dumped or mapped via MTD).  This is =
the
only way you can persist the nonstandard info and be flexible enough to
allow other uses of the VMU save data.  MTOOLS (the MSDOS userspace
filesystem utilities?) comes to mind.

Such tools would be a hell of a lot easier to implement than a full-blown
(and unfortunately incompatible) VFS driver.

M. R.