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- From: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi)
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to mount the OS/2 HPFS from Linux?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.141320.20224@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov22.073941.14070@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <1992Nov22.142421.16296@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 19:13:21 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Nov22.142421.16296@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
- >mmannan@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Mohammed Mannan) writes:
- >>Is it possible to mount the HPFS file system? If not, will it
- >>be possible in the future? anyone working on it?
- >
- >Not possible. Don't know that anyone is working on it. Shouldn't be
- >too difficult after getting the documentation on HPFS; however, as is
- >usual with big and evil companies, it is uncertain if IBM distributes
- >them (I'd be glad to be proven wrong, though).
-
- A friend who worked at IBM recently has said that the HPFS specs were
- published in some IBM journal and should be available. He couldn't
- find his copy but maybe I can push him some more after he recovers
- from his latest batch of assignments. I did manage to find some
- HPFS articles in Byte magazine. One of them gave some low level
- information on it. The basic form is a set of file records a la
- inodes with multiple indirection but a file's block numbers are
- kept as begin/end pairs to promote contiguous storage.
-
- The Byte magazine references I looked up are below.
-
- Main entry: Minasi, Mark.
- Title: Digging into HPFS.
- High Performance File System
- In: Byte v. 15 (May '90) p. 109-10+ 0360-5280
- Collation: p. 109-10+ : il.
- Subject: File organization (Computer science).
-
- Main entry: Minasi, Mark.
- Title: To HPFS or not to HPFS.
- High Performance File System
- In: Byte v. 15 (Mar. '90) p. 101-2 0360-5280
- Collation: p. 101-2 : il.
- Subject: File organization (Computer science).
-
- Main entry: Minasi, Mark.
- Title: A first look at HPFS.
- High Performance File System
- In: Byte v. 15 (Jan. '90) p. 137-8+ 0360-5280
- Collation: p. 137-8+ : il.
- Subject: File organization (Computer science).
-
- --
- "The first fact to face is that UNIX was not developed with security, in any
- reliable sense, in mind; this fact alone guarantees a vast number of holes."
- -- "On the Security of UNIX", Dennis M. Ritchie
- Arthur Tateishi ruhtra@turing.utoronto.ca
-