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- Submitted-by: aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew)
-
- >..> Discussions of using the System V filesystem switch to mount DOS directories
- >
- >I'm not sure what all this has to do with UNIX standards, though, as
- >none of the existing UNIX standards specify the on-disk format of UNIX
- >file systems (thank goodness!), they just specify the interface to
- >functions that manipulate files.
-
- While I understand where the "thank goodness" comes from, I do rather
- wish that there were some standards for the on-disk format of UNIX
- filesystems. Or am I the only person that has ever tried to transfer
- UNIX filesystems on floppies between different systems? Or (soon)
- transfer UNIX filesystems on floptical disks?
-
- Most of the filesystems standards work seems to be technology specific
- - such as, the soon-to-become-official standard for CD-ROM filesystems
- and other optical disks. However, what I've seen of the CD-ROM
- standard suggests that I am unlikely ever to be able to mount a CD-ROM
- as the boot partition of my workstation...
- Q: what is the UNIX community's particpation in various
- technology-oriented filesystems standardization efforts? Does everyone
- feel confident that present and future UNIX filesystem semantics will be
- completely supported by these standards?
-
- --
- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 155
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