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Subject: Re: COW fs (Re: Editing-in-place of a large file)
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[ Charset KOI8-R unsupported, converting... ]
> 
> 	Is there any FS that have dynamic allocation?
> 
> 	On one partition can reside a number of FSs and using only needed space? this
> would be really cute - HD behaves just like RAM.
> 
> 	Some FSs on partition just like number files on FS.
> 	In other words "File Systems' System".
> 
> 	google and altavista both show nothing...
> 
> PS Interesting like academic task. Hm. Will invistigate.

Are you thinking something similar than AdvFS of Tru 64 ?

( storage or partition is called as 'volume'
  and filesystems which share volume are called as 'filesets' )

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