Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogccse!blake!ndsuvax!ncoverby From: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: switching file systems Summary: I'd like a filesystem switch, too. Message-ID: <2993@ndsuvax.UUCP> Date: 7 Oct 89 22:36:43 GMT Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 30 In article <2454@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) writes: >In article <24987@louie.udel.EDU>, Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) writes: [personal slurs deleted] >> The kernel switch a la V8 is a good idea and should be simple enough. >Putting in a kludge like dual file-system formats just to avoid a simple >one time operation is not sensible. I think having a filesystem switch would be nice. As it stands right now, the only way I can touch my DOS partitions is with "dos{read,write,dir}'. If multiple mounted filesystem formats were supported, then I could MOUNT them (after writing an MS-DOS filesystem, of course -- and no, that is not an impossible task). And how about remote filesystems? Do you say the same about the people at Sun who designed NFS that you did about Marty? One of my former (now graduated) office mates put something like this into Minix for his MS thesis. His main goal was to be able to mount another machine's disk over a network; he didn't have the network so he just worked on the split in FS to mount another filesystem. I never saw it running, but I got the impression that it still needs a lot of polishing. He had FS communicating with another process that handled the other filesystem formats. Simplicity and luxury will always be opposites. -- Glen Overby uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet)