(Fwd) Re: New file system

["Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>]

I'm not on the list currently, but I this person is looking for info on 
putting filesystems in other files and I no longer have the refs to 
what some members of the list were doing.

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At 12:38 PM 7/26/96 +0000, you wrote:
>On 26 Jul 96 at 3:07, free-dos@vpro.nl wrote:
>
>> I ask this here since I can't find anywhere else to ask this.
>
>> I'm looking for / thinking about writing a library that allows 
>> for a file system to exist inside of a single file (much 
>> like the microsoft OLE document).  This is needed for a project 
>> of mine.
>
>Check the Linux 2.0 distribution. I believe it allows this.  There's 
>also some cypherpunks talk recently about hiding encrypted 
>filesystems in other files, so you may want to check the archives in 
>hks.net.
>

Could you give me a good site to look into this? I tried coast.net with
no luck since the source is spread over a good number of directorys.



>> Requirements:   
>> 
>>    Mulitiple files and a hiarchial directory reside in a single
>> file.
>> 
>>    The file starts out as small as possible then it becomes 
>> bigger as more files and directorys are added to it.
>> 
>>    The files inside the file system can be added, renamed, 
>> delete, moved, fragged.  (there must be a way to defrag the 
>> files)
>> 
>>    Each file in the file system can have mulitiple streams much
>> like the NTFS file system.
>> 
>> End of requirements.
>> 
>>    Does anyone know of a library like this and if so where 
>> if not does anyone have any ideas on how this could work.  
>> Currently i'm looking at modiling the system after the 
>> UNIX file system.
>> 
>> Any ideas / comments please respond by email to:
>> hawk@idir.net.  
>> 
>> Use subject: 'Re: New file system'
>> 
>> 
>> e-mail: hawk@inf.net
> 

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