Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/04/12:32:10
Brian Dukes writes:
> >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....
>
> [SNIP]
>
> 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,
Neither can I, that's not what I'm suggesting or indeed asking.
However, there is a very good reason why you'd want to not build all
filesystems into the DOS kernel.
> 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!
You have totally missed by point. I was wondering out loud about the
idea of not building the filesystem into the kernel of DOS but having
the filesystem loaded from (for example) CONFIG.SYS. No-one shifts
filesystem lightly and the fact that you will loose the data should be
pretty self evident to anyone.
Besides, I can't see your point. Even if they *do* ZAP the partiton
(after taking a backup I'd hope), my question still stands.
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