AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (10/24/88)
>Date: Wed, 19 Oct 88 20:24:25 GMT >From: Doug McIntyre <netsys!nucleus!dougm@LLL-WINKEN.LLNL.GOV> >Has any one at apple considered making a *big* prodos file system? If you change the file system it isn't ProDOS any more. (ProDOS 8 wouldn't be able to read it, for example. ProDOS 8 doesn't have room to grow very much.) On the other hand, I assume that Apple *is* working on an HFS FST. >for example, using the long data size for block numbers for an >access size of the drive at 4GB, and having filetype a word long, >having longer file names, and upper/lower case, more rubust[?] symbols >in file names, and so forth. Sounds a lot like HFS to me, at least as far as upper/lower case, longer names, bigger collection of characters allowed in names. Not sure about the exact limits. >I notice that there isn't any fst id number that corresponds to >future expansion of prodos, but you probably could take something >like dos 3.1 off the list of fst id numbers (after all I doubt that a >dos 3.1 fst is going to be written.) I'm not sure extensions to the ProDOS fs will happen, but as far as getting IDs for FSTs, there isn't a problem: Apple can define one of the more than 65500 currently-undefined values. (An FST ID is a 16-bit quantity, and only about a dozen have been defined so far.) --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons