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Aucbvax.1973 fa.unix-wizards duke!decvax!ucbvax!CSVAX.mark@Berkeley Sat Jun 27 15:06:52 1981 forwarded note Reply to unix-wizards, he'll get it.

>From decvax!duke!unc!smb Sat Jun 27 07:05:35 1981 To: unix-wizards Subject: self-describing file systems

Has anyone developed any scheme for putting several file systems on one disk without hard-coding that information into the driver? For example, the super-block of the first file system on the pack could give the offset of the next, etc.

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