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000069_vincent@waw.com _Fri Apr 17 22:00:17 1998.msg
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:01:36 +0100 (GMT+0100)
From: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>
cc: linux-arm@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: fd0* device for ADFS shape discs under i386 Linux
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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Out of interest, is anyone working on write support for ADFS?
[snip]
> The trouble is that ADFS (or more truthfully filecore) does not have
> the concept of the inode. Inodes are what Unix filesystems are built of.
> They have the following properties:
>
> Each file has an inode
> The inode remains the same during the life of the file
> Inodes do not map to more than one file.
> The inode contains all of the metadata for the file except its name.
>
> I cannot think of a good way of faking inodes for ADFS filesystems *except*
> the following rather horrible idea:
[snip]
MSDOS' FAT system doesn't have i-nodes either, but they can be mounted r/w
anyway, so you may want to look at the kludge used there. (or in the
other non I-node based FSes recognized by Linux)
Cordialement,
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