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From: bees@infoswx.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 10:43:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 10:43:00 1986
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>Idea:	Could O/S hackers please make the file system detachable from the
>	rest of the O/S? This requires treating file systems like they
>	existed at the other end of a network, and doing remote procedure
>	calls like "create a directory entry for file X and give it name Y".
>
>	An immediate benefit of this is that when you plug a FOO-format
>	diskette (or binary file) into a BAR-machine all your ordinary
>	utilities keep working but they use a different name for the
>	diskette drive in order to use a different file-system server.
>
>More:	To do this, you distinguish between a "device-driver" which hides
>	those details of hardware to horrible for ordinary mortals to
>	behold and a "file-system" which assigns meanings to the bit
>	ingested and egested by the device-driver.

I believe that this is possible on the Amiga.  Each disk inserted into
the machine gets it's own "file-system" task.  Also, everything in the
OS is a linked list, so why couldn't I link in a different "file-system"
for say an ms-dos diskette or whatever?

Ray Davis