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- From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay)
- Subject: Re: Linux Disk Format...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.010432.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:04:32 GMT
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- > Also, I noticed that Linux has installable file systems. Great! Is
- > anyone out there in C-programming-is-my-life land working on an HPFS (Os/2
- > format) system for Linux, or, conversely, a Linux IFS for Os/2? Just because
- > I'm too incompetant to know how doesn't mean none of you is doing it...
-
- I just thought I might clear up this little issue. I have been considering
- this very issue for a while now, and have come up with some rather
- disappointing results.
-
- Mainly, I got a response from a couple of people at IBM who said that the
- document "HPFS disk layout" (or something like that) was marked
- confidential and for "Microsoft's eyes only"... Essentially, the problem is
- that IBM has not, as yet, released all the details of their disk format, so
- writing an HPFS FS for Linux could be difficult. There are several articles
- out there about HPFS that tell you _some_ of the low-level details, but I
- don't think they're incredibly useful.
-
- I believe IBM is reconsidering it's opinion on the "openness" of OS/2 at
- the moment, and may release details of the HPFS (and some other stuff) at a
- later date, but as it stands at the moment, the information is not freely
- obtainable.
-
- Please correct me if I'm wrong.
-
- Pat -- Have a day!
-