On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: >>> It won't help FreeDOS of course because it still uses fnodes for these >>> things instead of SFTs. > >> Those are ancient relics that should be done away with. There is no >> need for them anymore. I'd like to put that high on the priority list >> for kernel development. > > in theory you are right. in praxis fnodes are everywhere throughout > the file system (as you probably know), and there's a reason we left > them in the kernel the last few years. it's probably fairly easy > to convert a stable kernel into unstable by trying to convert this. > > not that I wouldn't like to get rid of the fnodes (it would be > a very good thing), but it's probably a non-trivial amount of work > (and risk) involved with that. dont start it if you are not prepared > to finish it. > > Tom
It is not too difficult - I have a kernel without them lying around suffering from bit-rot, but it did not seem to bring anything useful to warrant the changes given the likely hood of bugs it also caused; I actually prefer the fnodes. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
