Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/25/08:52:23
Once upon a time (on 25 Apr 97 at 16:19) Lorier said:
> >> Yeah, avoid the problem all togeather! Defraggers shouldn't be needed :)
> >True. Take ext2fs for example - I shuffle decent amounts of data on my
> >disks and yet after the last defrag 2 months ago I've got a defragmentation
> >factor of 2%!
>
> yep :) something like a news server must go through heaps of files and end
> up creating lots of fragmenttation :)
Or you have to compile dosemu and the kernel once a day ;-))
> >> Hmm, I think it would be nice to have it store ALL the drivers in EMS (if
> >> possible), then Bank Switch in a driver, call it's "init" and if it can
> >> return:
> >Why EMS? XMS is much faster and efficient. But storing of all the drivers
> >in the memory seems like a waste of space. No automatic insertion
> >notification is available for FDDs - the file system can only be recognized
> >on demand or at the first access to a new diskette. Loading an appropriate
> >FS driver from HDD at that time is not that costly in terms of time!
> >I think that a better way is to maintain a database of FS signatures and
> >their respective drivers. A system daemon should exist to detect on demand
> >the FS type (as we cannot assume that they store their signatures in the
> >same place as other FSs) by just peeking at the lead-in information of the
> >FS (see GRUB for detection code). This costs less memory and time, IMHO.
>
> Hmm, possibly, but I don't think that all FS's are going to be that nice :)
True ;-(
> that and it's nice to be able to select the "best" driver for the job :) But
Exactly! But for that we'd have a 'mount' command - after all, is it *so*
complicated to type 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0' ??
> I agree, (notice I said load it), and chances are your going to load a FS
> that is already in memory.
True. For that the general system loaded modules database would
do.
> >> ANOTHER Fs? Hmm.. ok :) This should be a bit further down the track tho
> >> :)
> >I think that it's a good idea - having own system means that you drive the
> >van and you are not driven by someone else's moods.
>
> True, however there are a lot of good FS's for us to start with :)
the immortal ext2 being one! ;-)
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