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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-02-05 06:47:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-02-05 06:47:02 +0000 |
| commit | 99a7e12f34b3661a0d1354eef83a0eef4df5e34c (patch) | |
| tree | 3560aca9ca86792f9ab7bd87861ea143a1b3c7a3 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | e73a04659c0b8cdee4dd40e58630e2cf63afb316 (diff) | |
Merge with Linux 2.3.38.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 9 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a408b8828 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + + Cramfs - cram a filesystem onto a small ROM + +cramfs is designed to be simple and small, and to compress things well. + +It uses the zlib routines to compress a file one page at a time, and +allows random page access. The meta-data is not compressed, but is +expressed in a very terse representation to make it use much less +diskspace than traditional filesystems. + +You can't write to a cramfs filesystem (making it compressible and +compact also makes it _very_ hard to update on-the-fly), so you have to +create the disk image with the "mkcramfs" utility in scripts/cramfs. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 8ee0ea9cc..dc1910933 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ uni_xlate=<bool> -- Translate unhandled Unicode characters to special a '?' is used when no translation is possible. The escape character is ':' because it is otherwise illegal on the vfat filesystem. The escape sequence - that gets used, where u is the unicode character, is: - ':', (u & 0x3f), ((u>>6) & 0x3f), (u>>12), + that gets used is ':' and the four digits of hexadecimal + unicode. posix=<bool> -- Allow names of same letters, different case such as 'LongFileName' and 'longfilename' to coexist. This has some problems currently because 8.3 conflicts are not handled @@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ check=s|r|n -- Case sensitivity checking setting. TODO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -* When only shortnames exist, translate them from the codepage character - set to the iocharset. Currently, translations only occur when longnames - exist. To translate, first convert from codepage to Unicode and then - to the output character set. - * Need to get rid of the raw scanning stuff. Instead, always use a get next directory entry approach. The only thing left that uses raw scanning is the directory renaming code. |