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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: File System for Both Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 13:01:56 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <hg3M4AU.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <1994Mar10.122729.14271@wubios.wustl.edu> <2lom94$7tc@news.nynexst.com> <michaelv.763360199@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-To: Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> writes: >I wouldn't want to mangle my files through DOS if they were important, >however. If Linux can't do Berkeley FFS, it might be something to >consider adding. I agree, especially because the on-disk-format is not really that hard to read. The hard part is to mimic the write behaviour of FFS. It probably isn't even necessary to exactly mimic the write behaviour since alot of FFS stuff does things for disk latency that isn't even correctly implemented for SCSI devices (I am not sure that it is even easy or possible to do so.) John dyson@implode.root.com