>>>>> "Al" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
Al> b) AFFS... Well, there are different issues with it. OFS (aka "we
Al> don't need no stinkin' powers of 2, 488 bytes of data in sector is
Al> just fine") would be better off in some equivalent of mtools. IOW,
Al> in the userland. Floppies are floppies... Now, the rest is not
Al> that hard to update for pagecache, but handling the directories is
Al> going to be hell.
Unfortunately some people still use OFS on hard disk partitions afaik
;-(
Jes
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