Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 1997 18:59:52 -0400 | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: FAT/VFAT/FAT32 reimplimintation... |
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At 12:23 AM 7/28/97 +0200, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= wrote: >On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, James Mastros wrote: >[..] >> 2) I'm not going to support umsdosish stuff. > >Patch for uvfat (if I rememer) exist. >Why ? What with Xdenu, Mini Linux and other fat (vfat) embeded Linuxes >instaled by uncompresing arj/zip files ? >I known many people whitch start moving from win*/dos to Linux by >instaling xdenu or other. > >Why you can stop this .. ? ? ? > >kloczek
I'm not going to support umsdos/uvfat (or it will be dead last on my priority list) because I don't use it. In my view, fatish filesystems should be used to access data that you need to get to from a non-ext2 supporting OS, like DOS. I don't know what you meen about uncompressing arj/zip files (IE what this has to do with uvfat)... and I have never heard of xdenu (looking it up now...) ahh... "With Xdenu you can easily use your PC as Xterminal." -- What does this have to do with umsdos/uvfat? Remember that this is not designed to replace the existing msdos,vfat,umsdos,uvfat... filesystems. This is a learning tool for me, and it will likely be many months (years, even)... untill this is anything close to ready to use on a not-ready-to-have-daily-crashes system. I'm not even going to use it myself for mainstreem stuff, I'm going to register the "fatish" fs, to avoid any name-clashes...
As an aside, I thought of 2 things I forgot to mention... 1) I'm planning to use the cluster-number of the first cluster of the file as the inode number... Does anybody see a problem with this? Other than that you wouldn't be able to defrag a mounted fatish filesystem... but as I like to say "deal."
2) Yes, I know that these messages are back-dated by a week... don't ask.
-=- James Mastros
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