Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 23:40:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Reply-To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
cc: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Yes, why not make the FS as widely compatible as possible rather
> than say using a new FS without group/owner and permissions, etc,
> and then a year from now when we make OD multiuser - we reinvent
> yet another FS (YAFS) to handle the new needs, or hack the old FS
> to do it.

BTW, there's a DR Multi-User DOS, somewhere in that revision control
system Caldera got...

About creating a new FS or using an existing one, I think ext2 would be
just fine as the "big" FS when you have 4 megs RAM or more on a 386, so
there's no need to create a new FS from scratch for that. But maybe later
on, a replacement for FAT/VFAT, faster and better designed, easy on
memory, no real security (like todays VFAT), but supporting nice file
undeletion *and* LFNs...

Pierre Phaneuf