slpnix on Nostr: Remember UMSDOS? UMSDOS was a #linux pseudo-filesystem overlaid on top of a FAT ...
Remember UMSDOS? UMSDOS was a #linux pseudo-filesystem overlaid on top of a FAT filesystem. All the attributes that couldn't be stored in FAT (actual file name, permission and ownership bits...) were stored on a separate file in the same directory.
It was super-slow, extremely fragile and, well, pretty much a hack. BUT, it allowed many, including myself, to have a "soft" entry to installing Linux at a time when disk space was scarce and repartitioning usually meant losing data.
And, in fact, my first Linux distro was Slackware 3.1, installed in no other place than C:\LINUX 😄
It was super-slow, extremely fragile and, well, pretty much a hack. BUT, it allowed many, including myself, to have a "soft" entry to installing Linux at a time when disk space was scarce and repartitioning usually meant losing data.
And, in fact, my first Linux distro was Slackware 3.1, installed in no other place than C:\LINUX 😄