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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- From: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi)
- Subject: Re: Linux using HPFS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.150617.23416@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <727676295.AA34611@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:06:17 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <727676295.AA34611@remote.halcyon.com> Derek.Glidden@f42.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Derek Glidden) writes:
- >Apologies to the nets if this reply is belated or re-FAQing something I
- >
- >haven't seen yet:
- >
- >The major problem with ANY other operating system using HPFS is that,
- >from what I understand, the actual format/structure of the HPFS is still
- >
- >(C) Microsoft and they're not releasing any details, except to IBM.
- >
- >Now, if someone's hacked the details out on their own, that's another
- >story altogether.
- >
-
- You might try contacting Mark Minasi. The articles he wrote for BYTE had
- most of the details. There are probably some fine details needed for
- a vfs which he might know or could be reverse engineered.
-
- arthur
-
- 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
-