Re: VFAT kernel considerations

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >> I recommend that newfatfs explicitely ignores any request (mint.cnf)
 >> to write drive C: as VFAT media, in order to be totally idiot-proof.
 >
 >I disagree, a warning in the docs should be sufficient. It's not like
 >enabling VFAT on the boot-partition makes it impossible to boot, it's
 >just that it can make things confusing at times (or destroy things if
 >you don't know what you're doing).                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
And many people (including some reading this very list) don't have
a clue what they're doing. This occurance is likely to increase as
people hear about the VFAT capabilities of MiNT 1.15 and decide to
give it a try, so we might as well make the system idiot-proof, to 
avoid floods of complains from newbies who mistakenly messed their
boot partition. Just common sense.

 >> Furthermore, it might be a good idea to write "/etc/fstab" and
 >> specify any partitions (ie: drive D: or above) that use VFAT, so 
 >> that future versions of INIT can call up the correct version of
 >> FSCK for each filesystem.
 >
 >/etc/fstab should be updated, but I think this should be some by some
 >configuring-program (like kellis' MiNT-setter) and not by the kernel.

Obviously...

Mintsetter deals specifically with global mint.cnf variables,
but GEM tools could of course be written to initialize and to
install filesystems.  Something like a GEM Minit that appends
fstab with the correct info would be welcome.  


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