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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Large Disks
Message-ID: <3481@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 3 Oct 89 22:36:33 GMT
References: <233@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> <3463@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1989Oct3.170941.7177@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <1989Oct3.170941.7177@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>something like the Eighth Edition filesystem switch in the kernel, so
>the kernel simply understands both kinds of filesystem.  
While this might help, there are some utilities that actually know about
the disk layout, such as mkfs, fsck, readfs, de, etc.  All these would
have to have the same switch.  I am inclined to say this is too complicated
compared to a one-time tar-out + tar-in.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)