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From: "Jim Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
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To: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison), opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:05:03 -0500
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Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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> I really like these file system ideas. It should be possible and
> efficient to allow (say) a Macintosh file system to be mounted in one
> place in the tree, an hpfs one in another, and each have attributes
> available when in that area.  I'm not sure that second files are the
> best way to do it, but I'm not sure (Tim probably has the best feel for
> what would work well over bnetworks; I certainly don't like systems
> where some special file is stored in the root directory that is missing
> when subdirectories are exported).
Wouldn't it be possible to use a single fs that has the majority of 
the necessary capabilities, such as ext2, for example, and allow the 
OS to handle translations to/from? (for the hard disk, that is)
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