On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:57:35PM +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: > There is unfortunately one thing that most of these filesystems have > in common: they are designed to store their data in a partition that > has a fixed size. If you create such a filesystem in a regular file, > you have to pre-allocate the space that you will need for storing your > data. Unless, of course, you simply re-use the filesystem, and make the file a folder instead of a file. It has its definite disadvantages (what do you do if somebody messes with the case in the filenames, or 8.3 mangle them?), but I kind of like the idea. :-) (We've discussed this earlier, though. :-) ) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
