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From: Jonathan Tarbox - SSG <JonatTar AT sbservices DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: RE: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 13:48:25 -0500
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	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:

IFS=c:\opendos\ext2.sys
IFS=c:\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.  

	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.

>----------
>From: 	Brian Dukes[SMTP:bdukes AT crox DOT demon DOT co DOT uk]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, February 04, 1997 9:49 AM
>To: 	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
>Cc: 	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
>Subject: 	Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
>
>On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:10:07 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>
> 
>>> 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=ext2.ifs type line.  If someone then changes
>that line in the config.sys to IFS=vfat.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.
>