Technical data

pcfs(7FS) File Systems SunOS 5.5
in PCFS.
PCFS has no provision for handling owner-ID’s or group-ID’s on files. You may experi-
ence various errors coming from chown(1) or chgrp(1). This is not a problem. It is a limi-
tation of PCFS.
NOTES The following are all the legal characters that are allowed in file names or extensions in
PCFS:
0-9, a-z, A-Z, and $#&@!%()-{}<>‘_\ˆ˜|’
Since SunOS andDOS operating systems use different character sets, and have different
requirements for the text file format, one can use
dos2unix
or
unix2dos
command to convert files between them.
PCFS offers a convenient transportation vehicle for files between Sun Workstations and
PC’s. Since theDOS disk format was designed for use underDOS, it is quite inefficient to
operate under the SunOS system. Therefore, it should not be used as the format for a
regular local storage. You should use ufs for local storage within the SunOS system.
BUGS PCFS should handle the disk changecondition in the same way thatDOS, does, so that the
user does not need to unmount the file system to change floppies. PCFS is currently not
NFS mountable. Trying to mount aPCFS file system through NFS will fail with an
EACCES error.
7FS-242 modified 2 Mar 1995