** Reply to message from Brinkley Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri,
06 Jun 2008 20:05:41 -0500

> You know -- there was at one time a good rationale for using a FAT 
> partition for Windows 2000. The file maintenance overhead on FAT is 
> significantly less and gave a decent increase in performance.

I used to run the HPFS on Windows NT instead of FAT or NTFS and it
too was much faster. It seemed like a better choice than FAT since it
was supposed to have better caching and a newer filesystem. It could
also be accessed from Linux and DOS.

I can't remember when Microsoft broke support for HPFS, was it 2000
or XP?  Anyway, I always thought it strange that the HPFS driver was called
pinball.sys.  I wonder what kind of story that has behind it.

Doug


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