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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!kalessin From: Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <31462C1C.686CE00F@netcom.com> Sender: kalessin@netcom2.netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4gilab$97u@park.uvsc.edu> <4giqu8$aqk@park.uvsc.edu> <4gira2$a9d@park.uvsc.edu> <hpa.31321eee.I.use.Linux@freya.yggdrasil.com> <4h7t5i$qoh@park.uvsc.edu> <DnoqB4.2sy@pe1chl.ampr.org> <glDH59i00YUvFFjspX@andrew.cmu. <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4i1t4s$muj@shelby.visix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 01:59:56 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19286 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15392 Steve Kiernan wrote: > Well, you could do what OS/2 does for EAs on a FAT system. It creates a file > which has the EAs for each file in the directory, since FAT can't handle the > EAs in the file list. Problems with this: 1) It's slow 2) If a non-EA supporting kernel accesses the fs, you screw up the EA's *big time* (i.e., DOS and OS/2) 3) It creates major disk fragmentation. - Adam -- Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Website ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ka/kalessin/adam.html Linux - OS/2