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. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- 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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