[Freemint-list] API proposal for online FATFS

[Peter Slegg]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:00:01 , freemint-list-request at atariforge.org wrote:
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I am not quite sure what this would be used for ?
Editing your FAT remotely ?

Does it not offer a large security hole in the OS ?

Peter


> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 23:02:31 -0500
> From: Mark Duckworth <mduckworth at atari-source.org>
> Subject: Re: [Freemint-list] API proposal for online FATFS
>     manipulation
> To: freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org
> Message-ID: <865c2176-5245-eabd-73aa-b53248ecd56b at atari-source.org>
>
> Nobody else really said anything but I thought it sounds nice.  A little
> scary for your data, but nice :)
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
> On 02/01/2017 02:52 AM, Adam Klobukowski wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Recent release of Diamond Back/Edge inspired me to design a system API
> > for online FATFS manipulation (and finally pushed me into getting back
> > into FreeMiNT development).
> >
> > The purpose of this API is to allow online (filesystem remains fully
> > accessible all the time) moving data (optimization/defragmentation)
> > between clusters on FATFS.