Re: Disassembling an FST...

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "BS" == Bill Scheffler <schefflr@news.msus.edu> writes:

 BS> Charles Stephens (devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com) wrote:
 BS> : I say work on a way to autodetect the volume format and boot
 BS> : appropriately.  I am certain the folks at sequential could do this for
 BS> : their RamFAST card as well.

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

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

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

My feeling is that HFS should replace ProDOS-FS and there should be
DOS-FS for compatability.  However, only a few people have
superdrives, so that is less important to me (esp. since I can use
localtalk to pass files back and forth).

I suggest there should be a consortium to update GS/OS using System
6.0.1 as a base.  I have been trying to collect the relevant material
(but for a hobby this is getting expensive), but not quite there.

cfs
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