Re: [PLUG] Thoughts on creating a virtual file system

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:07, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> Cute idea, but sadly 10 MB files still aren't as portable as one would
> like.  How do you move it around?  Got one of those keyfob USB
> harddrive thingies?  If so, why not just use the file system that
> comes with it?

I think if he had one, he wouldn't have had to come up with the workfile
solution he just posted, eh? ;-)

Besides, what's not portable about a file? All that's required for this
to work is the ability to a) mount a loopback filesystem (any UNIX
variant can do this) and b) the ability to mount whatever filesystem
you've formatted the file with; properly chosen, this is also the
province of any UNIX variant (unfortunately, this means ext2 is out,
unless you're running all Linux).

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