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diff --git a/system/posixovl/README b/system/posixovl/README index d9e3021b45..926de96504 100644 --- a/system/posixovl/README +++ b/system/posixovl/README @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ 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. +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 +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. |