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From: cs_b144@ux.kingston.ac.uk (Ian Stickland)
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Subject: Re: HPFS on a Floppy -  Totally Impossible ???
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Date: 10 Jun 91 13:20:50 GMT
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Why do you want HPFS on a floppy anyway ?? I was under the impression that HPFS
only gave significant performance gains on large drives anyway. Apart from the
long filenames which get preserved when you transfer to another HPFS
partition, I don't see the point. Also, how can you buffer a floppy when there
is no guarantee that a) it will be the same floppy next time you use the drive
and b) the write cache might try flushing it's buffers after you've removed it.

              Ian Stickland.