From owner-mint@fishpool.com Mon Apr 14 08:43:02 2003 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:36:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Standa Opichal X-X-Sender: stop@mail.idoox.com To: Martin Tarenskeen cc: Aranym-user mailing list , MiNT Mailing List Subject: Re: [MiNT] New filesystems under plain TOS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: opichals@seznam.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Hi there! On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way (really or theoretically), with the help > of extra drivers, to have access to my ext2 and vfat partitions with long > filenames when running single TOS instead of FreeMiNT on my Falcon. If I > have understood correctly this is possible with Aranym and Betados (?). Well, yes, basically it is possible. The VFAT should not be a problem as there are many sources for this and it is really independent extension (I mean that no other code is needed.. it is simple). As for minix or ext2 I would be skeptic because it uses quite large MiNT kernel functionality regarding the block io and caches. BTW: I see no reason to support something else than MiNT nowadays, so I won't be the one working on this. It is a bit nonsense IMHO when we have complete, working, TOS compatible, open-source solution.... regards STan