RE: VFAT.XFS versus MagiC

[Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.nl>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> > I was playing with an idea of writting a TSR program for hooking on
> > Fopen/Fcreate/Fsfirst/Fsnext under TOS but hopefully I realized soon it 
> > couldn't be done cleanly :-( Rewritting the filesystem code is better idea 
> > (but harder :-) Though we could use source code from Linux...
> 
> A very good idea! I haven been looking at some MiNT-docs today, and
> the XFS-interface doesn't look very complicated. The problem is to
> write the actual filesystem-code, but if it's possible to nick large
> portions of it from Linux...
> 
> With totally rewritten code FAT32-partitions shouldn't be a problem
> either, I guess they're already supported by Linux. 

FAT32 isn't supported in Linux, not even in the devel kernels. There is an
ALPHA test driver available, though, i could look up the URL from my
linux-kernel mail archive if you wish.

Regards (and good luck ;-)
Thomas.