Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi Serg! Unfortunately (AFAIK) FreeDOS cannot handle it once there are many differencies between linux and freedos at low level Can`t you use any kind of cd/usb linux? i myself use system rescue cd http://www.sysresccd.org/ People will suggest others :P Kind Regards and Best Wishes, Geraldo

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread sergei karhof
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Geraldo Netto geraldone...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Serg! Unfortunately (AFAIK) FreeDOS cannot handle it once there are many differencies between linux and freedos at low level Can`t you use any kind of cd/usb linux? i myself use system rescue cd

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread C. Masloch
what are the chances of seeing a FreeDOS driver for the BtrFS filesystem anytime soon? I don't think it will happen. As many of you may already know, BtrFS is poised to become the next Linux standard filesystem very soon, replacing the ext family of filesystems. I don't even know of any

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread C. Masloch
I think the big limitation will be addressable filesystem space. Btrfs can support 2^64 files, and 16EB volumes. That's a wee bit too much for DOS to handle. Even if you have a Btrfs that's fairly small, say small enough to be addressable by DOS, Assuming the driver has enough space for its

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 03:22 PM 7/18/2012, sergei karhof wrote: It's strange, because the LEAN filesystem was designed to work on FreeDOS-32, which is a DOS too, judging by the name. Can someone explain the incongruence. BTW, is FreeDOS-32 dead or what? IMHO, it was dead right from the start, as those folks that

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote: At 03:22 PM 7/18/2012, sergei karhof wrote: It's strange, because the LEAN filesystem was designed to work on FreeDOS-32, which is a DOS too, judging by the name. Can someone explain the incongruence. BTW, is FreeDOS-32

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread sergei karhof
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote: Considering that there are no DOS application that can handle things like Extended Attributes, what is the purpose of trying to use it with DOS? The fact that there are no applications using it in DOS is a *consequence* of

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 03:39 PM 7/18/2012, Rugxulo wrote: A few years ago, one of the main developers left (for various reasons, e.g. preference for different licensing). So the few others haven't really done much since (except for a sporadic LEANfs add-on documentation or whatever-the-heck it is). Even without

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 04:13 PM 7/18/2012, sergei karhof wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote: Considering that there are no DOS application that can handle things like Extended Attributes, what is the purpose of trying to use it with DOS? The fact that there are no