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- From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: TOSFS
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 8:36:16 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <199402210718.CAA20040@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Feb 21, 94 2:18 am
-
- > I've been thinking of a scheme like this for a while, but decided it
- > wasn't worth implementing unless the inode could be guaranteed unique
- > instead of just "usually" unique. However what you've written would
- > definitely be preferable to the currently implemented method of making
- > up inodes.
- >
- > My feeling is that the best inode computation would be to use the
- > starting sector number of the file as the inode. But I don't know of
- > a way to compute the starting sector number without reading the FAT
- > directly.
-
- Of course. In fact this is what the beta version of Mag!x 2.1 does :-)
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