From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett Person) Subject: Re: Will OS/2 HPFS be supported in the future? Date: 8 Aug 1993 05:30:26 GMT
In article <CB7uvy.Mrw@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> aobrodsk@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Brodsky) writes:
>In article <18046@blue.cis.pitt.edu> hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
>>Herbert Neugebauer (haen@hpl.hp.com) wrote:
>>| The problem is not that IBM doesn't want to publish the
>>| HPFS specs and detailed informations about the structure,
>>| but the Microsoft has rights on HPFS. They prevent IBM
>>| from publishing the informations.
>>
>>it's just so trendy to bash microsoft... anyway, MS journal ran a fairly
>>elaborate article about the internals of HPFS, say, withing the last 3 years.
>>
>Could you please give us a reference if possible, I would really like to get a
>look at that article.
>
Yes, they did. And it was about the old HPFS from 1.3. My understanding is
that HPFS under 2.x is different maybe in some major ways. I think that
HPFS wasn't finished at the time that article was written.
I'd bet that the EAs are completely different for 2.x, given the fact that
the file system is supposed to live with WPS and a lot of junk is stored in
the ea's and the ea's are ( I think) physically attached to the files.
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