Andrew Clegg wrote in a message to John Poltorak:

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

 AC> Apart from an IFS for Macintosh HFS disks, one thing that
 AC> would be nice for OS/2 would be one for CDROMs using the
 AC> Rock Ridge filesystem as used on Unix machines. At the
 AC> moment, CDFS.IFS only supports the ISO 9660 filesystem, in
 AC> other words DOS-style 8.3 filenames. When you think about
 AC> it, this is a little silly.

Rockridge is a strict superset of ISO 9660.  IBM should support it in CDFS.

 AC> Actually, there are one or two other things it would be nice
 AC> to see IFSs for, like the Linux Extended-2 filesystem, and
 AC> maybe AmigaDOS disks. If there was an Ext-2 IFS I'd use it
 AC> in preference to HPFS for various reasons. 

Linux Second Extended is the one thing that should be implemented for OS/2.
 It is a well-designed file system that is very similar to HPFS in overall
structure, but is intended to be driven by a 32-bit CPU.  I have suggested
several times that it would be a good project for someone to do, although I
would not have the time for at least several months and any resulting work
would be freeware subject to the GNU GPL with the rest of Linux.
 
-- Mike


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