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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2000-08-08 12:37:17 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2000-08-08 12:37:17 +0000
commit9aa9eb41942b918f385ccabd2efdd6e7e4232165 (patch)
tree20bec7da036d31ec185dfc1dcc00753c7ac9b170 /Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt
parent87075e049581f880f01eb0b41aa6ac807b299e35 (diff)
Merge with Linux 2.4.0-test6-pre1.
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ conv=binary,text,auto (default binary)
- there is a list of text extensions (I thing it's better to not convert
text file than to damage binary file). If you want to change that list,
change it in the source. Original readonly HPFS contained some strange
- heuristic alghoritm that I removed. I thing it's danger to let the
+ heuristic algorithm that I removed. I thing it's danger to let the
computer decide whether file is text or binary. For example, DJGPP
binaries contain small text message at the beginning and they could be
misidentified and damaged under some circumstances.
check=none,normal,strict (default normal)
Check level. Selecting none will cause only little speedup and big
danger. I tried to write it so that it won't crash if check=normal on
- corrupted filesystems. check=strict means many superflous checks -
+ corrupted filesystems. check=strict means many superfluous checks -
used for debugging (for example it checks if file is allocated in
bitmaps when accessing it).
errors=continue,remount-ro,panic (default remount-ro)
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ access it under names 'a.', 'a..', 'a . . . ' etc.
Extended attributes
-On HPFS partion, OS/2 can associate to each file a special information called
+On HPFS partitions, OS/2 can associate to each file a special information called
extended attributes. Extended attributes are pairs of (key,value) where key is
an ascii string identifying that attribute and value is any string of bytes of
variable length. OS/2 stores window and icon positions and file types there. So
why not use it for unix-specific info like file owner or access rights? This
-driver can do it. If you chown/chgrp/chmod on a hpfs partion, extended
+driver can do it. If you chown/chgrp/chmod on a hpfs partition, extended
attributes with keys "UID", "GID" or "MODE" and 2-byte values are created. Only
that extended attributes those value differs from defaults specified in mount
options are created. Once created, the extended attributes are never deleted,
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ values doesn't work.
Symlinks
-You can do symlinks on HPFS partion, symlinks are achieved by setting extended
+You can do symlinks on HPFS partition, symlinks are achieved by setting extended
attribute named "SYMLINK" with symlink value. Like on ext2, you can chown and
chgrp symlinks but I don't know what is it good for. chmoding symlink results
in chmoding file where symlink points. These symlinks are just for Linux use and
@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ file has a pointer to codepage it's name is in. However OS/2 was created in
America where people don't care much about codepages and so multiple codepages
support is quite buggy. I have Czech OS/2 working in codepage 852 on my disk.
Once I booted English OS/2 working in cp 850 and I created a file on my 852
-partion. It marked file name codepage as 850 - good. But when I again booted
+partition. It marked file name codepage as 850 - good. But when I again booted
Czech OS/2, the file was completely inaccessible under any name. It seems that
OS/2 uppercases the search pattern with it's system code page (852) and file
name it's comparing to with its code page (850). These could never match. Is it
-really what IBM developers wanted? But problems countinue. When I created in
-Czech OS/2 another file in that direcotry, that file was inaccesible too. OS/2
+really what IBM developers wanted? But problems continued. When I created in
+Czech OS/2 another file in that directory, that file was inaccessible too. OS/2
probably uses different uppercasing method when searching where to place a file
(note, that files in HPFS directory must be sorted) and when searching for
a file. Finally when I opened this directory in PmShell, PmShell crashed (the
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ File names like "a .b" are marked as 'long' by OS/2 but chkdsk "corrects" it and
marks them as short (and writes "minor fs error corrected"). This bug is not in
HPFS386.
-Codepage bugs decsribed above.
+Codepage bugs described above.
If you don't install fixpacks, there are many, many more...
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ History
1.99 Corrected a possible problem when there's not enough space while deleting
file
Now it tries to truncate the file if there's not enough space when deleting
- Removed a lot of redundat code
+ Removed a lot of redundant code
2.00 Fixed a bug in rename (it was there since 1.96)
Better anti-fragmentation strategy