Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Kernel LFN support
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 21:50:13 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, >Hi, before we re-invent the wheel again, we should first try to get >DOSLFN working with FreeDOS again. Jason writes that DOSLFN uses the Is FreeDOS ready for LFN? I mean LFN will affect the FAT table, is FreeDOS already spare enough 'space' for the extra space? And other disk maintenance program will not cause false alarm. (e.g. corrupted FAT table, misallocation of file) Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Re: Kernel LFN support
Hi, before we re-invent the wheel again, we should first try to get DOSLFN working with FreeDOS again. Jason writes that DOSLFN uses the FAT32 sector I/O functions for FAT32 enabled kernels for ALL drives in DOSLFN 0.33, and he thinks that DOS should be clever enough for that. In other words, he thinks that FreeDOS has a compatibility issue. DOSLFN 0.32, on the other hand, dynamically selected the FAT1x or the FAT32 API depending on the partition type for each drive (as far as I remember), which meant very slightly more complex code. LFNs as a separate driver are better than LFNs as part of the kernel if you ask me. Somewhat harder to implement but LFN in the kernel would make the kernel much bigger and you never know if MS might eventually insist on their LFN- related patents. Making DOSLFN non-freeware (-> license costs to MS...) would be much easier than making FreeDOS kernel non-free in such a case. Jason is not planning to drop FreeDOS support, but he thinks that a bug in FreeDOS causes the 0.33 problems. Somehow reminds me of the FreeCOM vs. 2035a problems recently :-P. [BCCing Jason... thread is about DOSLFN causing troubles with FreeDOS and about possibly including LFN support in the kernel. Particular problems: Ramdisks only work with 0.32/older and directory entries get trashed if the filesystem runs full in some cases(?)...] Eric. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
