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authorStuart Swales <stuart.swales.croftnuisk@gmail.com>2011-03-22 16:35:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 17:44:17 -0700
commitda23ef0549d4205ca9b576cf6cce9a80d0c3e43a (patch)
tree476939ca9c146ebc20ac627098690b1e2026827a /Documentation/filesystems
parent7a9730af9c596749425a98eba136152e5be4602a (diff)
adfs: add hexadecimal filetype suffix option
ADFS (FileCore) storage complies with the RISC OS filetype specification (12 bits of file type information is stored in the file load address, rather than using a file extension). The existing driver largely ignores this information and does not present it to the end user. It is desirable that stored filetypes be made visible to the end user to facilitate a precise copy of data and metadata from a hard disc (or image thereof) into a RISC OS emulator (such as RPCEmu) or to a network share which can be accessed by real Acorn systems. This patch implements a per-mount filetype suffix option (use -o ftsuffix=1) to present any filetype as a ,xyz hexadecimal suffix on each file. This type suffix is compatible with that used by RISC OS systems that access network servers using NFS client software and by RPCemu's host filing system. Signed-off-by: Stuart Swales <stuart.swales.croftnuisk@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt
index 9e8811f92b8..5949766353f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Mount options for ADFS
will be nnn. Default 0700.
othmask=nnn The permission mask for ADFS 'other' permissions
will be nnn. Default 0077.
+ ftsuffix=n When ftsuffix=0, no file type suffix will be applied.
+ When ftsuffix=1, a hexadecimal suffix corresponding to
+ the RISC OS file type will be added. Default 0.
Mapping of ADFS permissions to Linux permissions
------------------------------------------------
@@ -55,3 +58,18 @@ Mapping of ADFS permissions to Linux permissions
You can therefore tailor the permission translation to whatever you
desire the permissions should be under Linux.
+
+RISC OS file type suffix
+------------------------
+
+ RISC OS file types are stored in bits 19..8 of the file load address.
+
+ To enable non-RISC OS systems to be used to store files without losing
+ file type information, a file naming convention was devised (initially
+ for use with NFS) such that a hexadecimal suffix of the form ,xyz
+ denoted the file type: e.g. BasicFile,ffb is a BASIC (0xffb) file. This
+ naming convention is now also used by RISC OS emulators such as RPCEmu.
+
+ Mounting an ADFS disc with option ftsuffix=1 will cause appropriate file
+ type suffixes to be appended to file names read from a directory. If the
+ ftsuffix option is zero or omitted, no file type suffixes will be added.