Thursday April 13 1995, Mike Bilow writes to John Poltorak:

 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

 MB> Multivolume support is also going to be an issue soon,

Actually I had overlooked this.. With OS/2 being constrained to 26 drive
letters, the need to be able to span multiple disks with a single letter
will become increasingly important.

 MB> with hard drives now reaching the 9 GB
 MB> range and RAID on the verge of becoming affordable.

...although this particular argument make it less so :-).

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

Yes, it does sound very specialised. Maybe if more people knew *why* they
needed such things, then demand would grow...

John

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