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From: wert@iapetus.rice.edu@rice.EDU (Scott Comer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Efs on a MacPlus
Message-ID: <194@dione.rice.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 11:52:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 23 11:52:16 1986
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Organization: Rice University, Houston
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Keywords: EFS, external file systems, file servers

There are many problems with EFS on normal macs. I find it hard to believe
that EFS would even begin to run on the plus, or even with HFS, because it
assumes the MFS file system. That is, it doesn't know to make the FCB's
larger if HFS is active. The result is that the first FCB would be too
small, the second would overwrite the tail of the first, etc. Since the
first file is the system, the second is the Finder, etc., there is no way it
could work as is. 

We at rice are rewriting EFS to work with HFS (still mounting MFS volumes)
and to work better in general. We shall keep the net posted, but it should
be ready in about another month, fer sure.

scott