Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:48:46 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: tiller@connectnet.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a file system for FreeBSD and OS/2's HPFS? Message-ID: <199612161848.LAA22716@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199612160339.TAA28578@smtp.connectnet.com> from "That Doug Guy" at Dec 15, 96 07:38:50 pm
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> Ok, here is my second e-mail to the list, and it's a much quicker
> question. :) I have not seen anything about a file system for use with
> FreeBSD that will work with OS/2's HPFS (High Performance File System).
> I use OS/2 primarily, and am going to start working with FreeBSD on my
> home system, booting with OS/2's Boot Manager to the fbsd system for
> some development work. I know I can mount DOS file systems with fbsd,
> but I don't want to have to move all my files to the commonly accessible
> DOS partition since HPFS gives a lot of advantages in OS/2.
Nope. There is, of course, the MS-DOS file system. You could take the
source to that, and a book explaining the (gory) details of HPFS, and
develop one for all of FreeBSD-land. Or you could try to pester a
filesystem "expert" into doing it for you. I'm not one, by the way.
Try terry@lambert.org. ;^)
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