adfs.rst (3767B)
1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3=============================== 4Acorn Disc Filing System - ADFS 5=============================== 6 7Filesystems supported by ADFS 8----------------------------- 9 10The ADFS module supports the following Filecore formats which have: 11 12- new maps 13- new directories or big directories 14 15In terms of the named formats, this means we support: 16 17- E and E+, with or without boot block 18- F and F+ 19 20We fully support reading files from these filesystems, and writing to 21existing files within their existing allocation. Essentially, we do 22not support changing any of the filesystem metadata. 23 24This is intended to support loopback mounted Linux native filesystems 25on a RISC OS Filecore filesystem, but will allow the data within files 26to be changed. 27 28If write support (ADFS_FS_RW) is configured, we allow rudimentary 29directory updates, specifically updating the access mode and timestamp. 30 31Mount options for ADFS 32---------------------- 33 34 ============ ====================================================== 35 uid=nnn All files in the partition will be owned by 36 user id nnn. Default 0 (root). 37 gid=nnn All files in the partition will be in group 38 nnn. Default 0 (root). 39 ownmask=nnn The permission mask for ADFS 'owner' permissions 40 will be nnn. Default 0700. 41 othmask=nnn The permission mask for ADFS 'other' permissions 42 will be nnn. Default 0077. 43 ftsuffix=n When ftsuffix=0, no file type suffix will be applied. 44 When ftsuffix=1, a hexadecimal suffix corresponding to 45 the RISC OS file type will be added. Default 0. 46 ============ ====================================================== 47 48Mapping of ADFS permissions to Linux permissions 49------------------------------------------------ 50 51 ADFS permissions consist of the following: 52 53 - Owner read 54 - Owner write 55 - Other read 56 - Other write 57 58 (In older versions, an 'execute' permission did exist, but this 59 does not hold the same meaning as the Linux 'execute' permission 60 and is now obsolete). 61 62 The mapping is performed as follows:: 63 64 Owner read -> -r--r--r-- 65 Owner write -> --w--w---w 66 Owner read and filetype UnixExec -> ---x--x--x 67 These are then masked by ownmask, eg 700 -> -rwx------ 68 Possible owner mode permissions -> -rwx------ 69 70 Other read -> -r--r--r-- 71 Other write -> --w--w--w- 72 Other read and filetype UnixExec -> ---x--x--x 73 These are then masked by othmask, eg 077 -> ----rwxrwx 74 Possible other mode permissions -> ----rwxrwx 75 76 Hence, with the default masks, if a file is owner read/write, and 77 not a UnixExec filetype, then the permissions will be:: 78 79 -rw------- 80 81 However, if the masks were ownmask=0770,othmask=0007, then this would 82 be modified to:: 83 84 -rw-rw---- 85 86 There is no restriction on what you can do with these masks. You may 87 wish that either read bits give read access to the file for all, but 88 keep the default write protection (ownmask=0755,othmask=0577):: 89 90 -rw-r--r-- 91 92 You can therefore tailor the permission translation to whatever you 93 desire the permissions should be under Linux. 94 95RISC OS file type suffix 96------------------------ 97 98 RISC OS file types are stored in bits 19..8 of the file load address. 99 100 To enable non-RISC OS systems to be used to store files without losing 101 file type information, a file naming convention was devised (initially 102 for use with NFS) such that a hexadecimal suffix of the form ,xyz 103 denoted the file type: e.g. BasicFile,ffb is a BASIC (0xffb) file. This 104 naming convention is now also used by RISC OS emulators such as RPCEmu. 105 106 Mounting an ADFS disc with option ftsuffix=1 will cause appropriate file 107 type suffixes to be appended to file names read from a directory. If the 108 ftsuffix option is zero or omitted, no file type suffixes will be added.