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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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