VERY informative, Jeff! Very much appreciate this new information....
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> vfat is backward-compatible. Microsoft used reserved features in the FAT
> format to implement its features, and included consistency checks with
> fallback to 8.3 behavior in case an older MSDOS system modifies the FAT
> entries.
>
> Every floppy you use in Windows is treated as vfat.
Interesting!
> > > * What about DOS diskettes? 1.44M preformatted diskettes?
> >
> > Require a reformat assuming that they aren't already VFAT formatted. Even
> > for the average Windows user formatting a disk isn't difficult.
>
> What about them? They are vfat.
Well!
> The vfat module happens to support both the long filenames and large disk
> support.
And just how much space does VFAT take up?
> The loader has to know the name. "ldd" gets the loader to divulge the
> name(s) expected by a binary on a full distro. Might be better to steal
> this technique in the package loader than add a new file to the lrp
> format, though that doesn't help those with the old lrpkg figure out
> their problems.
My biggest concern is that someone on one of the other distributions
(e.g., LRP 2.9.8) will load a package, see a SegFault, and then go ask
why it SegFaults - with the accompanying head-scratching by the
wizards as to why a prepackaged *.lrp would SegFault.
The version idea is the simplest..... just query the version and see
if it is xxx(2.1).
I like the long name idea, using VFAT. The only thing is, VFAT adds
FAT to the kernel (pun intended :-) Just how big is this thing?
Long names also mean this: someone on an old distribution copies this
*.lrp over, and of course has to shoehorn it into 8.3 - either
deliberately, or via Windows 8.3 mangling for DOS FAT. Then loading
the package will fail, because the name doesn't match the <pkg>.list
name.... And using VFAT would allow longer names under UNIX as well.
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