Andrew Clegg wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB> I have never really played with TVFS.  For whatever reason, the file
 MB> system is one of those components which makes me uneasy to play with
 MB> too much.

 AC> Perfectly understandable, that's why I'm reluctant to look
 AC> at something like Zipstream (even though space gets tight
 AC> from time to time). TVFS in theory should be fairly safe, as
 AC> being a virtual FS you don't (AFAIK) have TVFS-formatted
 AC> drives, just a TVFS virtual drive that you mount all your
 AC> other partitions on.

Whenever I have worked with IFS development, I used a scratch machine for
it.  A shim IFS is a very different thing than a native IFS in terms of
complexity. With a shim IFS, most of the real work is done at application
level.

 AC> It's beginning to sound like one of those things that really
 AC> ought to have been redesigned years ago, rather than just
 AC> heaping new features onto an old architecture. I've talked
 AC> to a few people about it though and the general consensus is
 AC> that IBM have (at the moment at least) stopped IFS
 AC> development completely.

HPFS is really out of date, so I am surprised that IBM is not actively
trying to replace it.  At minimum, IBM should integrate the IFS work done
for LAN Server with the IFS work for the base OS/2.  Currently, these are
not even in the same IBM facility, some work at Austin and some at Boca
Raton.

 AC> This was prompted by actually encountering a case of the
 AC> Rockridge problem, I tried to give someone a copy of Linux
 AC> from CD but on looking at the CD from OS/2 we realised it
 AC> would be pointless, all the names would be mangled beyond
 AC> recognition.

Use the Linux RAWRITE utility to make the floppy boot set.  You should
choose a boot set image that has support for your CD-ROM.  Boot Linux from
floppy and do whatever you need to make up the set of disks for your
friend.
 
-- Mike


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