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- From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- Subject: Re: Stacker for OS/2....March?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:20:17 GMT
- References: <C14Fno.7vo@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <1993Jan20.014306.7028@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <C16HHK.7DI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <s_fuller.727636320@vincent2.iastate.edu>
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- In article <s_fuller.727636320@vincent2.iastate.edu>, s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller) writes:
- > In <C16HHK.7DI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler) writes:
- >
- > >Stacker will only create virtual FAT drives in FAT partitions.
- >
- > Is it just me, or does the hinting going around that Stacker for
- > OS/2 won't support HPFS make it completely bogus for most
- > people??? Sounds more like a compatibility upgrade to than
- > anything. I have a 212 Meg drive and I would like to get some
- > more space available on it, but I'm NOT about to go back to FAT
- > just to gain a 100 meg of drive space....
-
- Speculation follows:
-
- As I mentioned before, the VP who gave the talk in Boston seemed very surprised at the
- number of people using HPFS, especially those using it exclusively. Another factor that he
- mentioned that I did not get to follow up on was that although the compressed drive appears
- as a normal FAT drive to the system, internally, they apparently allocate unused space to
- other files. For instance, if a file only uses part of an 8K block (because of size, compression,
- etc.), then the rest can be used for other files (I believe that internally, everything is in
- 2K chunks). This would, in my mind, make it harder to port to HPFS. I would like to
- think that the feedback has some effect soon, but in the meantime, those of us who still
- use FAT drives will at least not have to boot back to DOS to get access to them.
-
- simon
-