Hi Tom, Christian, >> Which app crashes from running on a FAT+ kernel?
Those which assume that DOS runs FAT filesystems and uses 32 bit size fields in directory entries or file offsets and so on. Potentially many normal DOS apps. >> because EVERY new or extended filesystem breaks them. Only that this time there is no reason to break them or extend the filesystem, of course... > each and every general file handling program like: > COPY, XCOPY, Norton/Volkow Commander, ... > ZIP, RAR, ... CHKDSK (and don't tell me CHKDSK isn't > important), all Norton stuff xxBACKUP Indeed. > while they probably won't crash, some wont to what they > are expected to do. Which is even worse. > Are you prepared to check the entire ecosystem of DOS > utilities if they can handle 4GB+ size files ? Maybe CM just assumes "it is better because it is DOS" while I think DOS is better for CERTAIN things instead. Burning Bluray disks is not interesting for DOS and even if it was it would be easy to split images (in a standard format such as raw disk image) into non-huge parts instead of modifying the whole DOS for a single application... In short, there are circa zero apps left where it would be useful to support huge files in DOS. Once you realize THAT, you can start doing ACTUALLY useful work, such as for example writing a version of *SHSUCDX* which has any support for *UDF* filesystems in the first place, right? > it's probably MUCH a better idea to teach this hypotetical > blueray player to handle multiple files. As Bernd mentioned, some software even already does this. > that's the reason I think that 4GB+ is a real stupid idea. > the FreeDOS kernel shouldn't support FAT+ I agree. >> ...doesn't (yet) support FAT16 file systems larger than 4 GiB > yes another stupid idea. FAT32 is much more straightforward and more compatible... It supports filesystems up to 2 TB, although above 128 GB some old Windows versions will have troubles using them. >> , FAT16+ is no option anyway. > right. Exactly :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
