Re: Disassembling an FST...

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Charles Stephens (devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com) wrote:

: I say work on a way to autodetect the volume format and boot
: appropriately.  I am certain the folks at sequential could do this for
: their RamFAST card as well.

: I say stick to HFS, DOS-FS just sucks.  HFS is tuned for file searches
: and desktop use.  DOS-FS is not tuned for anything other than CP/M.

: HFS already gives you long file names, large volume support (esp with
: HFS+), permissions.  DOS-FS gives you none of these.

	I second that.  However, I would like to have a MS-DOS FST with
write ability.  But HFS works fine for me, and I'd really like to be able
to boot off it.  DOS FAT would be like a step backwards (shorter
filenames, etc).
	I think HFS+ would be overkill for the GS though.  But it would be
nice.

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