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Re: ext2 diskettes [was Re:Weird things]




On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tuvik Beker wrote:

> Alexander Indenbaum wrote:
> 
> > BTW with all the Unixism in my blood I do not see any reason at all
> > to use ext2fs floppies. 
> Long filenames, to name one apparent reason. There are others.

Long filenames are available when you tar your original files and copy 
the tar file into the DOS-formatted floppy.  When you want to read a file 
from the tar file, just pipe the output of tar xvf into your program.  
Not a big deal.  And speed is not the issue here because speed addicts 
would anyway copy their files from the floppy to the hard disk (or even 
to RAM disk) before work starts.

Since you mentioned other reasons, I am curious to know what they could 
be.
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