Hilary,
FAT just happens to be what Stephan was familiar with when he made a test
implementation of the FileSystem interfaces. The FileSystem interfaces are
generic enough that we can implement any kind of filesystem behind them that
we want.
- Avery
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilary Cheng [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 7:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JOS-Kernel] File System
>
> Hi ,
>
> Hm, will we use FAT as the Basic FS of JJOS ? Since I would like to
> have a Journal FS for JJOS rather than a FAT.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hilary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Regier Avery J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 6:17 AM
> Subject: [JOS-Kernel] File System
>
>
> >All,
> >
> >Last night I started looking at what it would take to implement a
> filesystem
> >in JJOS. Stephan Reich in '98 created an API for handling filesystems
> which
> >works quite well. He also wrote a FAT implementation. Someone was
> supposed
> >to write an ext2fs implementation, but it never happened. There is an a
> >Medium interface which we'll need to implement which would take care of
> the
> >physical writing and reading from disk.
> >
> >Has anyone thought much about this? I was looking last night for the
> EIDE
> >specification but was unable to find it. Are there any good sources of
> >information on how to access disk drives? Have those of you who looked
> into
> >drivers done any research in this area?
> >
> >- Avery
> >
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