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> So perhaps we could only reimplement all disk I/O (including non LFN)
> for LFN capable drives in plugin.

Yes, we'll have to do this.  DOS will know *nothing* of our drive.  We
will have to allocate a file descriptor (from NUL, like fsext does)
and keep track of PSPs.

> One remaining question is whether DOS itself uses int 0x21XX
> functions for file access or also internal ones.

I'm only concerned about DJGPP programs at the moment.