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From: Mike Shaver <shaver@netscape.com>
To: Dave Olson <olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: EFS volume descriptors
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:20:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <368FED40.12D7952E@netscape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199901032216.OAA36969@anchor.engr.sgi.com

Dave Olson wrote:
> Nothing is at block 0 of the filesystem.  Historically, back to v6
> unix, there were things like badblock tables there, so many filesystems
> for unix have simply not used block 0.  efs does not use it.

Drat.  So do I need the user to tell me if it's an EFS CD vs. an EFS
partition, so that I know to use the voldesc or not?  I guess I could
register a second fstype ("efscd" or some such) and make the user use
that.

Mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-01-03 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-02 18:35 EFS volume descriptors Mike Shaver
1999-01-02 18:50 ` David S. Miller
1999-01-02 19:08   ` Mike Shaver
1999-01-03 22:16 ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:16   ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:20   ` Mike Shaver [this message]
1999-01-03 22:22     ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:22       ` Dave Olson
1999-01-03 22:29       ` Mike Shaver

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