07-05-15 11:31 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Installing OS/2
Howdy! Mark,

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml> 04 Jul 15 21:42, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 SD>>> I'd recommend using JFS for any drive larger than 64GB...which is
 SD>>> HPFS' limit.

 EV>> Thanks for the 'heads up'.
 EV>> Now to look up JFS, Thanks!

 ml> generally speaking, modern operating systems use IFSes...
 ml> Installable File Systems... that means that FAT, HPFS, NTFS,
 ml> JFS and numerous others may be added to a system and used on a
 ml> drive or partition...

Thanks for looking that stuff up - or did all of what You wrote just
came off the top of Your head?


 ml> FAT is "File Allocation Table" and comes in three flavours that
-snip-
 ml> HPFS is "High Performance File System"... it uses B+ Trees to
-snip-
 ml> NTFS is "New Technology File System" and is a modified version
-snip-
 ml> JFS is "Journaling File System"... the biggest thing is that,

 ml> there are more installable file systems available... many of
 ml> them are also journal capable because of the huge safety factor
 ml> and the ability to use the journal to recover from problems...
 ml> this is akin to running checkdsk and hoping that everything can
 ml> be recovered... journaling knows what was done and that's where
 ml> a rewind can be used to back up to a known good point and then
 ml> start to move forward again...

All that will take some time for me to read, Thanks for the message.
I'm sure others here enjoyed Your post too!


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