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Re: TOSFS
> I've been thinking of a scheme like this for a while, but decided it
> wasn't worth implementing unless the inode could be guaranteed unique
> instead of just "usually" unique. However what you've written would
> definitely be preferable to the currently implemented method of making
> up inodes.
>
> My feeling is that the best inode computation would be to use the
> starting sector number of the file as the inode. But I don't know of
> a way to compute the starting sector number without reading the FAT
> directly.
Of course. In fact this is what the beta version of Mag!x 2.1 does :-)
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- References:
- TOSFS
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>