John Poltorak wrote in a message to Peter Fitzsimmons:

 PF>     2) be interested in developing an IFS (this was my main talk last
 PF>        year, and didn't seem to draw huge audiences)?

 JP> I'm not surprised at this.

 JP> I have an IFS for HPFS, CDROM, LAN and NFS. I've also heard
 JP> of TVFS, and a compressed filesystem which comes with
 JP> ZIPSTREAM.

 JP> Apart from a TAPE filesystem, I can't think of anything else
 JP> you might need one for. Of course, I know next to nothing
 JP> about filesytems, so maybe you could shed some light on this
 JP> topic...

There are quite a lot of good reasons for IFS development, and I would be
quite interested in Peter's talk if I was going to attend ColoradOS/2. 
HPFS, for example, is subject to 16-bit limitations, and it would be nice
to migrate an HPFS-like file system to 32-bit code.  Multivolume support is
also going to be an issue soon, with hard drives now reaching the 9 GB
range and RAID on the verge of becoming affordable.  Fault tolerance is
another area that could be addressed with an IFS.

However, as I think Peter is discovering, the number of people who know
anything about writing an OS/2 IFS could assemble in his living room.
 
-- Mike


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