Hi
30 Nov 2000, "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Or>> Wondering whats the advantage of the OS/2/NT HPFS over ext2fs..
TM> HPFS is now just for OS/2 [...] not NT.
M$ once developed OS/2 together with IBM ...
than they started NT and left OS/2
but NTFS is extremely similar to HPFS ... hmmm ... how come ?? ;)
TM> HPFS and ext2fs have differences, I don't really know which is more
TM> secure or sturdier.
extfs2 ...but no wonder, it was developed later, so it could profit more
from recent knowledge
TM> I believe Linux is working on a JFS, but don't know if it will be
TM> compatible with OS/2 and eComStation JFS.
It's released some time already ... called reiser FS (it is one JFS for
linux ... IMHO there will (are already) others)
TM> Considering that FAT16 is so wasteful of disk space on large
TM> partitions because of cluster size/allocation unit, what is the
TM> cluster size/allocation unit for FAT32?
it could be 512 bytes ... but than MUCH RAM would be wasted ...
so M& has chosen to use 4KB for sizes up to 8 GB and 8 KB for larger
partitions ... and maybe even larger clusters for huge partitions
TM> I have no experience with FAT32, nothing to test it on, nothing that
TM> will format a partition for FAT32, or at least nothing that I know
TM> of.
you need a win98 boot disk, with win98 utilities ... (format, scandisk,
sys, fdisk ...)
TM> While I might persuade Arachne to run on HPFS in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM,
TM> albeit slower than in straight DOS, I don't think I could possibly
TM> persuade Arachne to run on FAT32.
sure you can ... why not ??
you simply need a DOS, that supportd FAT32 (win98 or ME)
CU, Ricsi
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