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Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU : VVFAT] vvfat.c - help required for understandin
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Johannes Schindelin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU : VVFAT] vvfat.c - help required for understanding/modification |
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Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:23:54 -0500 (CDT) |
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Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) |
Hi Kevin,
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> When you have a design to solve the problem (and I believe it might be
> better to start that from scratch rather than extending vvfat as it
> would end up being a rewrite anyway), we can discuss that design.
I fully agree on all three accounts. VVFAT never was intended as anything
more than a hack, and it was never intended for large directories/tree
structures. And one fundamental problem cannot be overcome: when the host
changes the underlying files.
Ciao,
Johannes