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From: jimw@microsoft.UUCP (Jim Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: HPFS and OS/2 2.0 windows compatability
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Date: 23 Oct 89 18:22:14 GMT
References: <1989Oct20.142950.1000@rpi.edu>
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In article <1989Oct20.142950.1000@rpi.edu> ander@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael R. Primm) writes:
>
>     As it seems that there are people out there with OS/2 1.2, can anyone
>give me a technical description of how HPFS is different from FAT, what 
>sort of directory and allocation strategy it uses, and so forth??  Or, 
>if someone could direct me to a journal reference describing it, that'd
>be fine.

Microsoft Systems Journal, Volume 4 Number 5 (September 1989) has an article
entitled "Design Goals and Implementation of the New High Performance File
System", which is a pretty good description of the HPFS and how it's
implemented.  Should answer all of your questions.

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Jim Walsh                       jimw@microsoft.com
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