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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: mrphmpmmmph shoelace and partitions
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.143547.23391@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:35:47 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.021543.24526@sol.UVic.CA>
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- In article <1992Jul24.021543.24526@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
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- | One solution is to implement quotas, but I think Linus may
- | have said nay to that already. Another would be to
- | allow mounting of files as file systems? Comments? Catcalls?
-
- Well, I like the basic idea, because it solves a bunch of problems.
- But it needs a bit of support before it really works; namely support in
- fsck and mkfs to support it. And dynamic allocation of mount points if
- you envision using this for individual users.
-
- I *think* mtools will handle DOS FS in a file, and this would be a
- natural extension. It would also allow reading a raw disk image of a
- floppy f/s into a file, mounting it, running with it on a fast device,
- then unmounting it and copying back to the floppy. You can even keep it
- in ramdisk, notably faster than the floppy ;-)
-
- In mail to the poster who mentioned a xenix fs, I noted that a xenix
- f/s floppy can be mounted on xenix, V.3 and V.4, making it useful for
- data exchange when you are trying to maintain software on multiple
- platforms. And supposedly Solaris 2.0 will add support on both i386 and
- SPARC platforms (unless they rip it back out, which is unlikely).
-
- Like DOS format, xenix is a useful f/s type for portability, if not
- for day to day use.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-