>> you are a smart guy, but - as Eric already wrote - >>> actually BLOCK drivers are only suitable for making >>> FAT partitions on non-BIOS drives (e.g. USB) usable
> And I disagree with Eric (and probably lots of other people too) on > this. They are not ONLY suitable for FAT partitions -- it is at > least theoretically possible to virtualize non-FAT systems through a > device driver, citing yourself, ' I don't know enough detail about how any of the file systems work (even the basic FAT ones) to know for sure,' > and would provide some advantages over an IFS if you did it that way. the advantages that you mentioned simply don't exist. just accept this from a guy who knows what the kernel (and block devices) does and does not, and also knows a bit about FAT, exFAT, and other file systems. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
