On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Thanx for "clarifying" it for me. > > Is compatibility "improved" or "reduced" by using a real DOS > partition?
Naturally it is improved, since then DOS works directly on the disk, with DOSEMU only emulating the BIOS. But ... at any given time only at most ONE instance of DOSEMU should have write access to that partition, and it must not be mounted R/W in Linux. Moreover, when your DOSEMU crashes, it may leave some FAT sectors unflushed to the disk, hence destroying the partition (see README.txt). As to (when using the redirector) whether the underlying partition is ext2 ext3 reiserfs umsdos msdos vfat ... should not really matter, except for case issues (on native fs's you can have autoexec.bat and Autoexec.bat as separate files, which is impossible on msdos and vfat without the posix mount options). This is not normally something to worry about. Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
