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POSIX Overlay Filesystem (posixovl)
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A FUSE (filesystem in userspace) filesystem that provides POSIX
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functionality - UNIX-style permissions, ownership, special files -
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for filesystems that do not have such, e.g. vfat. It is a modern
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equivalent of the UMSDOS fs.
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It provides a filesystem view that supports various POSIX operations
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while using an otherwise incapable lower filesystem. Filesystems
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of various degrees of POSIXness can be utilitzed. VFAT is a
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common denominator when it comes to cross-compatibility, though
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NTFS -- its features are unused in Linux -- would be another
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possibility. Secondly, potent native POSIX-style filesystems can also
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be used, though the actual use of doing that remains to be discovered.
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