[H-GEN] Problem updating modules

[McBofh]

Tony Nugent wrote:
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>>> It's a feature, not a bug!  Huzzah!
>> Excellent!  I knew there had to be a reason why it was doing that.
>> Thank you very much.  That'll learn me to transfer a file using a
>> VFAT-formatted flash drive. <grin>
> Ouch!  If you are going to transfer/backup/restore files like that, then the
> best way is to use .tar (or .tar.gz/.tar.bz2) files to retain all the unix
> permissions/ownerships/links etc.

Well, gtar or preferably star. You could even use zip if you weren't
too fussed about other attributes. The two other other options that
I'm aware of are cpio and pax.

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> There must have been some reason for why it was done like this as default, but
> the logic doesn't seem to be very logical to me :-)

IIRC it's due to a degree of vagueness in whatever spec has been
available for fat/fat16/fat32. I could be wrong though.

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> BTW, that Ext2FS driver is a great (and an almost essential) utility for
> accessing unix filesystems from win98/2k/xp on a dual-boot box.  I'm sure it's
> freeware (I've been using it for a long time), so a google search should find
> it.

Ok, I have to invoke self.pedant() here. ext2fs is *not* a Unix
filesystem, it's a linux filesystem. UFS is the Unix File System.
Both ext{234}fs and the various UFS implementations share a common
heritage (and 20+ years of cruft).

Now that we've got that out of the way, I am more than happy to
support the notion that having drivers for different filesystems
on multiple OSes is a very good thing.


cheers,
James