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- eadeans@aol.com (EADEANS) wrote:
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- >I think the partition idea is great, however, wouldn't Ardi need to offer
- >a device driver so the OS can read MacOS partitions? I know it's that way
-
- If we wanted to access the MacOS partition from outside Executor, that
- would (of course) be necessary. Otherwise, they could just build the
- necessary driver stuff into Executor which would probably be easier.
-
- >Also, currently, only HPFS or SuperFAT support extended attributes that
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- What exactly is SuperFAT?
-
- >could be used to closely mimic HFS's extents, type, creator, etc. At
- >least, that's as I'm understanding it at the moment. Maybe Ardi could
- >offer both as a solution: HFS on a volume (partition, single file or
-
- I think that either HPFS or NTFS is the answer. HPFS is less complex
- than NTFS. HPFS supports extended attributes which could be used for
- storing stuff like resource forks. NTFS natively supports
- Macintosh-style files, but it is very complicated and MicroSoft hasn't
- released all the details. Although, there is a read-only NTFS fs
- driver for Linux.
-
- >otherwise). Using the native filesystems would cause more headaches than
- >it would solve, I think. SoftWindows has it easier because VFAT is dumb.
-
- True.
-
- Tobin Fricke
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