Re: [Freedos-devel] compressed FAT filesystems
Has Anybody looked up dmsdosfs? It is a linux filesystem driver that can access quite a few different compressed dos filesystems like drivespace and doublespace. Perhaps an implementation could be derived from its source code. On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Imre, Well, I think that a seperate partition with a compressed file system and a block driver would be the best option. I agree about the block driver, but I believe a file would be more flexible than a partition. Once you compress a partition, you would otherwise have to shrink it to make use of the gain. This would need partition table modifications... Too much work for a simple system :-). What I had in mind was more something like: Compress a partition or ramdisk in-place, then copy the result to a file and format the partition or ramdisk again, to get an uncompressed filesystem again. You can store the compressed filesystem file on that partition or at another place then :-). At the time doublespace/stacker were released, people were not intended to have many partitions on there drive. But with linux requiring a multiple of partitions, it is proven that people would lower there standards and settle for multiple partitions anyway. Linux does not need multiple partitions. You can have everything on one partition and you can even use a swapfile instead of a swap partition. Yet I personally recently recommended a scheme of root, dos, swap, usr, home to a friend, because his BIOS could only boot from the first 8 GB of his 160 GB disk, so it made sense to put the first 3 partitions in that area (swap is useful for some hibernate schemes, possibly using the BIOS). This would be the fastest, most straight forward way of doing it. As often with computers, there are many ways, also many good ones :-). Eric - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] about Directory Structure
Hi! 31-Мар-2008 03:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: 2. Windows drivers can't work under FreeDOS at all just because absolutely different environment and interfaces. I should say more: Windows NT (2000, XP, Vista) drivers can't work under Win9x and Win9x .386 drivers can't work under Windows NT. And even more: under Vista MS plans to disregard common drivers models just because it expects, that all drivers should be different AS Well, that would certainly go against the WDM phylosophy, an attempt AS of them to create a common driver model for NT and 9X... That just indicates, that poor head doesn't gives peace for hands. Forcing DRM in senseless meaning and wrong way is similar to building another Berlin wall with all its headaches, destructive overheads (resources, moneys, etc) and stupidity. Unfortunately, America as government, based on big companies, faster and faster tend to drop its freedom for safety, which in practice gives lost of peoples rights, privacy, personal moneys. Only big companies wins (they think, that they wins) - Walt Disney Company forces increasing copyright time to 70 years in try to hold rights over Mickey Mouse image, but this not saves WDC, instead causing lost for all others. MS DRM implementation (also as region zones in DVD) is trying to enforce protection of big companies over copyrighted work (read: over things, which some producers marked as our property), but the only result of this, as I say above, is lost of resources, moneys, safety, etc. (Unofficially, currently all DVD player manufacturers allow free change of DVD region). Sacrifice of WDM is between losts. But let close this theme, WDM, DRM and other such things are (yet) topics outside DOS world. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
