From:	Brian Dukes <bdukes AT crox DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
Date:	Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:12:22 GMT
Organization:	Clarke Roxburgh Computers Ltd
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 07:49:28 +0000, you wrote:

>Mark Habersack writes:
>
>> > And perhaps also go along the lines of Linux and have loadable =
modules
>> > (a bit like VLMs).
>>
>> Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a
>> standard for these drivers.
>
>Hmm, there is an interesting question. If filesystem support is loaded
>from CONFIG.SYS, and you want to have a 100% VFAT or even ext2fs
>filesystem, how will DOS be able to read the filesystem to find
>CONFIG.SYS so that it can load the file system driver that is required
>to read things from the filesystem that CONFIG.SYS is held on....

I'd imagine that a pointer will have to be placed into the boot sector
for the MASTER IFS of the boot drive; or possibly you have a the same
sort of thing that you do under Linux, use the partition type.

To be honest, I can't see that its going to be practical to move from
one IFS to another nilly-willy just by changing an instruction in the
CONFIG.SYS, for one the data stored under one IFS would be fairly
incompatible with the data stored under another .. and therefore, in
order to switch between filing systems you would probably ZAP the
partition first!

Bri.

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