>I really think some enterprising individual/company will have to implement
>the MPE file system under Linux.  The standard Linux file system, ext2, does
>not have a transaction manager.  There are some Linux file systems that do,
>like JFS from IBM, but they are not record-oriented and don't have the file
>types like MPE.

Well, Linux does seem to have provisions for various file systems
under the vfs umbrella (as far as I understand), but I do wonder if
it would really be possible to add an "mpefs" to this mix because
the Posix(ish) file system API seen/used by the application code is
probably unable to represent MPE-ish aspects like record size, ascii
or binary type, eof versus limit, file types and the like.

Ok, I am just judging from the Posix style API like open(), read(),
write(), close() and the like. Maybe there are some add'l doors like
fcntl() that would allow all the MPE-ish things to be dealt with...

Lars.

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