Re: [MiNT] Partition sizes

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:31 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> 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.

Whoa. Slow down. 64bit file access is no small task, trying doing
without it for quite a while unless someone steps up.

Alan.