[TriLUG] cp and a new fs, eg ntfs

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I'm wondering how cp on linux works. I have ntfs-3g mounting 
windows disks. Does cp have to be ntfs-3g (or fs) aware? If 
I cp ntfs to ntfs, will the permissions (or whatever is 
unique to ntfs) get copied correctly? Is getting the 
permissions right part of the ntfs-3g code and cp invokes 
calls in the ntfs-3g drivers?

It's hard to imagine any other way of doing it, but I just 
realised that I don't know what happens. Otherwise the fs 
tools (cp, mkdir...) would need code for all the fs, and 
when a new fs came out, the fs tools would have to be 
upgraded.

Thanks Joe
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