Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/08/00:18:43
On Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:22:57 -0600 (CST) "Colin W. Glenn"
<cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org> writes:
>On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Feb 1997 22:09:29 -0600 (CST) "Colin W. Glenn"
>
>> have, say 10 drives mounted with a different fs on each, you could
>> encounter a lag - but how many people run a program that accesses 10
>
>Also true, I just hope no-one comes up with a driver bigger than 120k,
If it happens like this, I expect we'll start out with a few big drivers
(say 60-80k) for the most common filesystems, then suddenly everyone will
start pouring out their own FS's with their own (optimized) drivers (say,
10-20k, larger if the FS automagically implements compression (gasp! Did
I just write what I think I did???)). Because the basic API would be the
same, we'd end up with hundreds of compatable FS's - BEAT THAT, M$!!! :)
>the
>smaller the better. Better yet, instead of dumping the driver, what
>about
>caching the driver? That way you don't have the driver reinitialize
>itself, it's ready to do! (This assumes the system uses the driver in
>Protected Mode with a smart enough swapmanager.)
Can you run a PM driver while the OS remains in RM? Nifty >:-)
Problem, though: I haven't coded anything REMOTELY similar to this. How
feasible is it, really? Anyone (I mean who has (pseudo)experience with
things of this nature) know whether or not this might work?
...Chambers
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