On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Eric Auer wrote: > >> - would you want a compressed filesystem to be writeable? > > The question to me is: Would you want a compressed filesystem at all? > My discouraging answer: I just don't need it. > > I think, what FreeDOS needs for daily use is a good graphical web > browser, a nice e-mailer, a word processor like Abiword, FOSS USB > drivers, ...
While I agree about some of the needed things, a compressed file system would do wonders for those folks using freedos on embeded devices, it would allow plenty of additional space on the boot devices, especially if it used lzw or lzh compression. Also, the idea of reading the entire 2gb into memory (where available) then reorganizing it and writing it back would be useful. As well, as the ability to write to the file system, building from existing partitions is nice for creating boot images and such is good, but without the ability to write to the file system, it would be strictly limited in how it could be used. I think it would definitely be best if the file system could be written to, since it would allow it to be used s a standard file system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
