Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 00:02:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Positronic Cat + DataHawk <posicat AT wwa DOT com>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Positronic Cat + DataHawk wrote:

> One of the things that bothered me about normal dos, opendos, win95 and
> such is that there are no drivers to access the Linux ext2 file system.
> That filesystem is faster and more efficient, and would make a great
> addition to Opendos as a driver so that people who use MSdos or W95 could
> still use it.  Dos drivers are something I've never gotten into, but I'm
> sure people on this list would be knowledgable about it.

We've discussed this quite a bit on the list allready, and I'm
sure that before too long ext2 will be a natural progression
under OD.

<DROOL>
Native ext2 with symlinks, hardlinks, case sensitivity, self
defragmentation, speed, permissions, uid's/gid's, etc...
</DROOL>

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