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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:

> From michael@metal.iinet.net.au Thu Jan 8 03:12:36 1998
> >> *** NTFS ***
> > non-unix file system.
>
> Correct. NTFS is nearly a perfect superset of the Unix, Mac,
> and OS/2 filesystems. Only /dev is missing.

So add a hack into the NTFS driver. For files named
'Read-A-Device-blah-minor-1-major-2' with a size of zero, have it
interpret it as a device called 'blah'.

If NTFS has a problem, fix NTFS.

Michael.

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