Re: [MiNT] Partition sizes

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:01:31 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> Potentially corruption, maybe truncating the file, if it opens it with
> write access. Read only would just trigger an early EOF when it really
> isn't.
>
> > Would we need two different partition types ?
>
> Partitions types, or rather filesystems - as a partition type is just a
> value and it's the filesystem that has the characteristics, have their
> own file size restrictions, see Davids post.
>
> Alan.
>

I was thinking back to the days of biggem and the like.
Were the GEMDOS calls always 32 bit ?

If the 32 bit is made, could GEMDOS check that the partition is
of a certain "type" and allow the call. If the partition is 64 bit
style then the call could return an error.

This would hopefully prevent corruption when the user is using an
old application to access a more modern fs.

Peter