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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: partitions
Message-ID: <37607@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 19:55:30 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <10141@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY) writes:
>Well then, could someone format a 100M drive in the High Sierra/ISO 9660 format
>and use the entire drive as a single volume?  Or does the HS/ISO FST assume
>that all such drives are read-only.  It would be nice if the FST queried the
>drive to see if it is writable, and then a normal hard disk could be used with
>this format.

	The HS/ISO FST is still read only, even when the media is writable.
	The reason for this is that the HS/ISO file systems were designed
	for reading.  Many of the data structures on the disks would be
	hard to update dynamically, but it could be done.

>Brian Willoughby
>UUCP:           ...!{tikal, sun, uunet, elwood}!microsoft!brianw
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>Bitnet          brianw@microsoft.UUCP


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