> "Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BUT FAT is one of the worst (read THE worst) filesystem imagineable !
> It is simply a table which holds the information.
right!
> Modern Filesystems use a balanced binary tree. (HPFS, ExtFS2, even NTFS,
> .....)
> Access is MUCH faster, and clustersize=sectorsize !
Access IS faster but with DOS you can't use any of these Filesystems and
OS/2 is no alternative on a 386/486- Linux??
>
OS/2 1.x was designed for the 286, using 16-bit protected mode. OS/2 went
32-bit with v2.0, designed to run on 386 or 486. OS/2 Warp 4 can run on 486,
but Netscape crawls, so do Java applications. I quickly gave up on HotJava
browser. Linux runs on 486, but I wouldn't attempt to run GNOME or KDE.
HPFS clustersize=sectorsize, but I believe Linux file system, ext2, has default
inode (cluster size) 4096 bytes. People using multiple OSes are likely to need
a DOS partition (FAT16) as a lingua franca recognizable to all OSes, for things
like email and news downloads, RFCs and other things that are relevant
regardless of OS. I am not familiar with (Free, Open, Net)BSD file systems.
