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diff --git a/system/posixovl/README b/system/posixovl/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d9e3021b45 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/posixovl/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +POSIX Overlay Filesystem (posixovl) + +A FUSE (filesystem in userspace) filesystem that provides POSIX functionality - +UNIX-style permissions, ownership, special files - for filesystems that do not +have such, e.g. vfat. It is a modern equivalent of the UMSDOS fs. + +It provides a filesystem view that supports various POSIX operations while using +an otherwise incapable lower filesystem. Filesystems of various degrees of +POSIXness can be utilitzed. VFAT is a common denominator when it comes to +cross-compatibility, though NTFS — its features are unused in Linux — would be +another possibility. Secondly, potent native POSIX-style filesystems can also +be used, though the actual use of doing that remains to be discovered. |