From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) Subject: Re: 600Meg CD's and file systems Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 03:29:19 GMT
In article <1992Sep30.221746.22064@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> of comp.os.linux,
lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
> I need to setup file systems on 600Meg CD's, this would require 10
> normal Minix partitions :-) Unfortunitly thats kind of yucky expecially
> if I need to mount all of them when a CD is changed. Will the Extended
> FS support 600meg disks?
Yes, it will.
> I saw some stuff about it using a free list instead of bitmaps? Is this
> still the case? Has anything been done to prevent fragmentation? Xenix
> has a serious fragmentation problem because of the free list stuff.
Well, EFS2 will have a bitmap instead.
But really, when you write CD's, do you mean CD-ROM? If so, the ISO9660
and Rock Ridge file systems have been ported to Linux although they are not
in the default kernel.
/hpa
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