Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!pacbell!att!cbnewsl!moss!wtr From: wtr@moss.ATT.COM (3673,ATTT) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix Questions...Eagerly Awaiting MacMINIX!!!! Message-ID: <4127@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> Date: 14 Feb 90 18:57:48 GMT References: <11067@nigel.udel.EDU> Sender: news@cbnewsl.ATT.COM Reply-To: wtr@moss.ATT.COM (Bill Rankin) Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 27 In article pete@titan.rice.edu (Pete Keleher) writes: >... if minix used the host file system, it would be VERY >useful in a variety of additional ways. There are many advantages to using >the host file system, and the only disadvantage that I can see is some >small amount of extra hacking required of the person who ports the product. [...] >Please understand that I'm not whining, just confused. If worse comes to >worse, I'll hack up the file system myself. ----------------------------------- >Pete Keleher pete@titan.rice.edu Hi, Pete, It seems that this was one of the original intentions of minix itself. (ie, being able to drop in a new file system, or anyother part of the OS) N'est pas? -bill -- ===================================================================== Bill Rankin email address: att!moss!wtr was: Bell Labs, Whippany NJ att!bromo!wtr now: AT&T Federal Systems, Burlington NC (919) 228 3673 (cornet 291)