Re: Disassembling an FST: The Story

[Joseph Barbey <jb0w@cakerwood.ilabs.uwrf.edu>]

: Have any other ideas?
: According to me the enhanced ProDOS FST must not be an enhanced ProDOS
: FST but a
: new FST (follow me?). Each FST has a unique ID (GS/OS Reference),
: imagine the size
: of the FST if it had to handle normal partitions with newer ones (this
: is what
: the MSDOS FST does with 9-12... FATs)

: The 32mb limit must be broken,
: The 16mb may remain (have any interest in a bigger size for a limit of
: 8mb of ram?)
: The length of filenames may be up to 31 characters long
: The size of a block may remain at 512b
: The number of logical blocks may be larger than 64k

: The good explanation is given by two GS/OS calls (GetFileInfo and
: GetdirEntry)

I've had a thought for some time.  If we ever get any real info for FSTs
in general, how about looking at a file system source code that is totally
in the public domain, source code included?  Secifically, I'm thinking of
the ext2 filesystem of Linux.  I don't know whether it would be able to be
made bootable on the Apple II, but it seems to be a very stable fs.

Any thoughts?
-- 
Joe