Or the device driver, depending on how much the driver writer want's to integrate with the target OS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe on other OSes, but not on OS X (which this thread is about).
[quote]<strong>They can do whatever they want as long as it gets properly written into the directory.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not on OS X. The ATA device drivers are architecturally below the filesystem layer, and thus filesystem-independent.
Thus, they have no way to know how directories are implemented on any given filesystem that might be run on top of it.
From their point of view, all they exchange with the file system on the one hand, and the hardware controller on the other one, are raw blocks of data.
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Or the device driver, depending on how much the driver writer want's to integrate with the target OS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe on other OSes, but not on OS X (which this thread is about).
[quote]<strong>They can do whatever they want as long as it gets properly written into the directory.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not on OS X. The ATA device drivers are architecturally below the filesystem layer, and thus filesystem-independent.
Thus, they have no way to know how directories are implemented on any given filesystem that might be run on top of it.
From their point of view, all they exchange with the file system on the one hand, and the hardware controller on the other one, are raw blocks of data.
Bye,
RazzFazz
[ 02-07-2002: Message edited by: RazzFazz ]</p>