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- From: boltr@nic.cerf.net (Rory Bolt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: File system switches
- Summary: Can you stack file systems under NT
- Keywords: NT, file systems
- Message-ID: <2562@news.cerf.net>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:45:05 GMT
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- Organization: CERFnet
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- Hello,
- Does NT support a file system switch and stackable files
- systems similar to vnode based UNIXs? In particular would it be
- possible to implement something similar to Sun Microsystem's
- Translucent File System (TFS)? For those unfamiliar with Sun's TFS,
- it allows a user to stack a normal file system over the read only file
- system of a CD Rom. To the user it appears as a read/write file
- system; a read/modify/write operation would migrate the file from
- the CD Rom to the normal file system. From then on all read
- operations are satisfied from the normal file system for this
- file; other files which are unmodified are still retrieved from
- the CD Rom. All of the migration is transparent to the user, with
- the exception that migrated files are generally accessed faster
- than unmigrated files.
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- Thanks in advance,
- Rory
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