Re: RE: VFAT.XFS versus MagiC

[Jo Even Skarstein <Jo.Even.Skarstein@ifi.ntnu.no>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Sven Karlsson wrote:

> > There are two different layers of implementation: first you need a driver
> > providing OS functions for reading & writting sectors of DOS formatted
> > media - that's the lower layer. And on top of this driver the XFS can run.
> 
> AHDI and all good hard disc drivers have no problem handling the lrecno extension
> to Rwabs so reading/writing large discs is no problem. However TOS cannot use FAT32
> only FAT16 and FAT12. In this case it is meerly the "XFS's" fault.

Writing a VFAT-XFS looks more and more possible :-) I'm even tempted
to try it myself, although I need to study things very carefully
before I decide to give it a try or not.


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