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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why Partition a Hard Disk
Message-ID: <2917@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 88 20:42:23 GMT
References: <4360004@wdl1.UUCP> <1988Aug31.174144.1694@utzoo.uucp> <8435@smoke.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article <8435@smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
< In article <2916@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
< >I see another problem.  Presumably, the change over to a long inode was
< >accompanied by a change from a V7-type file sytem to a different file system
< >where directory entries support the long inodes (whether this be BSD 4.3 or
< >some new kluge).
< 
< Not necessarily; that's a separate issue.  Guy noted that remote
< filesystems could use inumbers > 2^16 even if the local filesystems
< didn't.  As to directory scanning breaking, it would have to have
< broken on the remote directories anyway.  I would hope that by now
                                                              ^^ ^^^ Dream on
< everyone has acquired the POSIX-style directory access library and
< is using it.

Why don't you post source for "the" POSIX-stype directory access library then?
it?  No I don't have ARPA access to anonymously ftp it nor do lots of other
USENET-only folks.
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