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New (Feb 20 2003), tclvfs now contains a nice debugging feature for those writing tclvfs implementations:

    vfs::filesystem internalerror report
    proc report {} { puts stderr $::errorInfo }

will do wonders!  Tcl implementations are now not allowed to throw Tcl errors, only Tcl ok or posix errors.
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[LV] When using a [Starkit], one accesses files within the starkit via
TclVFS.   Please list here some of the differences one will see when accessing
files via TclVFS rather than accessing them via a normal file system.

For instance, file ownership and permissions are not supported within
many (most?  all?) the VFS modules.

A user reports on comp.lang.tcl that when accessing files via VFS on Windows,
the file names are case sensitive.  

[Vince] adds that each filesystem module can choose whether to be case-sensitive or not.  Most are, I believe, implemented in a case sensitive fashion.  I'd be interested to know how, say vfs::ftp works when the relevant ftp site is running on a windows server (not case sensitive)...
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