First thing I noticed (This may be just me.),is that we need more memory for the OS environment.Normally,when I boot FreeDOS on ANY computer (Be it modern or old),the memory is always 601 MB free.More memory would be needed for a bigger file system and multi-tasking.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Mercury, > > so you want to run a NAS or home automation on DOS? > > For NAS, you need a multitasking OS, not DOS. For > home automation, which limitation of FAT would be > a problem? Same for other light embedded devices. > > Flash does not give good performance for FAT, but > embedded devices would have been free to use one > of many available Linux filesystems. But did not. > > Of course the question can be extended: What if an > existing nicer-than-FAT filesystem is used more in > DOS? Have a look at what already EXISTS for Linux, > then have a look at the source code to check which > filesystems are 1. simple enough to make a "light" > DOS driver possible (some might even be so simple > that booting DOS from them is feasible, but only a > really popular filesystem may get kernel drivers), > 2. better than FAT in some way (e.g. more speed on > flash storage, better space allocation or LFN in a > less insane way than VFAT) but 3. not putting lots > of code into features which mean nothing for DOS, > such as ACL based file permissions or extreme file > or disk size support beyond existing FAT32 API or > "network redirector" API expressible number range. > > Looking forward to your review of existing FS-es! > > Of course with an outlook towards which properties > a not-yet-existing FS could have to be even nicer > for use within a DOS based storage "ecosystem". > > Cheers, Eric > > PS: By "light", I mean a driver which is not 100s > of kilobytes in size and which can be fast with a > bit of DOS RAM and XMS instead of needing 500 MB > of DPMI RAM and protected mode implementation :-) > > > > > NAS devices, home automation computers and other similar devices are > > becoming increasingly common, and offering a filesystem finally capable > > of handling the sizes of modern hard drives could be a welcome > > improvement for them, and just may help get FreeDOS used in a wider > market. > > > > How do we know this isn't a chicken-and-egg problem? Maybe all the > > devices only use the proprietary exFAT because there was no open > > alternative. Maybe, had there been one available, we would all... > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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