Re: [MiNT] MiNT and MetaDOS

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On 2000-5-2, Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nvg.org> wrote:

> > c) FATFS does not cooprate well with too many applications; its
> >    incompatibility with TOSFS often creates problems; too many
> 
> Sorry QF, but this is simply not true. 

See previous osts by myself and Kellis, over the last few months.
_Many_ applications don't like FATFS _and_ ext2, probably because
they are processed through the same "new and improved generic XFS
interface."

> >    applications cannot find their RSC or open files on a FATFS,
> >    but can on TOSFS.
> 
> This can only be caused by bugs in the AES or bugs in the old
> GEMDOS-interface in MiNT. This is no reason to keep TOSFS.

MiNT 1.15.5 and N.AES 2.0 both say your assumptions on my
configuration are wrong.  Besides, if an application stops
working when running over a kernel without any TOSFS, the 
cause _is_ rather clear:  missing TOSFS.

> > Because of this, TOSFS and SPIN! 0.34 are still needed.
> 
> No. If you use Spin! you don't need TOSFS, since Spin! is a
> XFS and naturally don't need to hook into GEMDOS.

But it still needs MetaDOS to support audio CD; it is _not_
a completely standalone XFS.

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