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Subject: HPFS : How-Pathetic-File that-Sucks
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From ucdavis!ucbvax!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!BCRVMPC1.vnet.ibm.com!MLCOHEN Fri Jun  7 19:58:29 PDT 1991
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From: mlcohen@bcrvmpc1.vnet.ibm.com (Marc Cohen 8/443-3945)
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Subject: Formatting a floppy for HPFS
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MC> You may be able to fool the system into thinking the driver is fixed and
MC> get HPFS to format it. However, if you ever switch diskettes, you will
MC> end up with a real problem. HPFS is currently not prepared to handle a
MC> media switch. It will not checkpoint the buffered sectors and reread the
MC> directory base from the diskette before/after you switch diskettes. To
MC> do that you would need a MOUNT/UNMOUNT sequence which is not
MC> implemented. You would probably thus end up with directory information
MC> from the first diskette written on the second. And HPFS will really not
MC> buy much on a diskette.
MC> 
MC> 
MC> Marc L. Cohen                  vnet: MLCOHEN at BCRVMPC1
MC>                            internet: mlcohen@bcrvmpc1.vnet.ibm.com

      Thanks for the info.  But this really sounds like the designer(s) of
HPFS really haven't thought it through when they design it.  Just imagine this:
     You have created a file on HPFS with filename abcdefghihj.klmnop.qrstuv,
on you hard disk.  But then there's no way for you to back it up on the floppy
with the original name.  So you save it with abcdefgh.klm .  So what's the use
of HPFS anyway ?

PS:  Hey, IBM and MS, here's one problem that should be solved with version 2.0.Anyone has information about this ?

T. Huynh