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 21:29:46 GMT
Organization:	Clarke Roxburgh Computers Ltd
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 13:48:25 -0500, you wrote:

>
>	I'd slow down there yourself Brian...  The IFS module system is only so
>the OS can read extra Filesystems other then FAT.. an example config.sys
>might have:

<G> or is it!!   Dave Pearson was thinking out aloud of say having a
100% ext2 OpenDos system .... in which case, like Dave said how is it
going to know how to read the config.sys file under ext2 until that
file system has been installed.

>
>IFS=3Dc:\opendos\ext2.sys
>IFS=3Dc:\opendos\vfat.sys
>
>	Now the OS could read/write to FAT, EXT2, or Windows 95's LFN FAT
>system without seperate programs (dir, copy, etc..) used for each. =20

Yep, i'm quite happy with the concept of layering file systems, so
that DOS new how to read FAT (by default), Ext2 for an Ext2 partion
loaded by an IFS statement, etc.

>
>	The adding, changing, removing of IFS lines would just remove the
>support to read/write to that particular IFS.. it would just NOT be able
>to access those partitions, it would NOT try and convert them as per
>what you thought..
>
>	Though, it prolly would error our on someone if they had it booting to
>say Ext2 and didn't add Ext2.sys to the CONFIG.SYS..  should prolly be
>programmed to set read-only mode for that partition.

Sorry, run that one by me again??  What should be programmed as read
only?


Bri

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