Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 03 May 1996 11:42:53 -0400 | From | Mark Lehrer <> | Subject | Re: linux on HFS? why not HPFS instead? |
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> With all of the discussion of HFS and UMSDOS, why not make a > UMSDOS-type filesystem on HPFS? It already has full support > for long filenames. It has 512-byte blocks (no brain damaged > DOS clusters), and extended attributes could very easily be > used to store permissions and other data.
yes! good idea.
i think the standard HPFS should work via extended attributes for permissions, group, owner, etc. no special UHPFS would be necessary.
of course, the best thing would be to finally have a standard non-case-sensitive file system on unix. preservation of case is important, but being case-sensitive when looking up a file is a serious time waster.
there was talk when 1.3.x was young about read-write HPFS being one of the goals of this kernel version; is this still the case?
mark
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