From: Brian Dukes <bdukes AT crox DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
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Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 14:49:15 GMT
Organization: Clarke Roxburgh Computers Ltd
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:10:07 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

=20
>> 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, 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!
>
>Ok, well you use FAT then.  We will use ext2.  Everyone will be
>happy. :o)

Woooo... hold your horses just one cotton pickin' minute there Mike!

What I am saying is that switching *nilly-willy* between IFS's on a
machine is not necessarily practical.  That does not mean for one
moment that I prefer to use or even like to use FAT ... I can see the
benefit of having other IFS's made available to OD,  I just don't
think its going to be terribly practical having the IFS load from
config.sys with an IFS=3Dext2.ifs type line.  If someone then changes
that line in the config.sys to IFS=3Dvfat.ifs   what the hell will
happen to the information already on that partition??

Please don't put me in the *I love FAT* camp, I don't belong there!!
<G>


bri.