On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:47:58PM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote:
> I've been working on Test::Virtual::Filesystem for a couple of
> weeks. It's a growing collection of interoperability tests that
> should pass for any typical filesystem.
Could it also be used for detecting what features a mounted filesystem
supports?
eg, "does this filesystem support hard links" and "does this filesystem
support Unix-style permissions"? The hard bit is doing that while
taking into account mount options. eg, on Mac OS X, you can mount a UFS
filesystem (which supports Unix-style perms) but tell the system to
ignore permissions altogether. The *really* hard bit is to do that as
an unpriveleged user and without making any changes to the fs.
If so, then I can see immediate uses for it in a couple of my projects.
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