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- Short: Unofficial patch for the 45.13 FastFileSystem (3.9 BB2)
- Author: Etienne Vogt (Etienne.Vogt@obspm.fr)
- Type: util/misc
-
- The FastFileSystem shipped in OS 3.9 BB2 (V45.13) has a bug in the disk
- validator code. A memory buffer that is allocated for the validation is
- later freed with a wrong smaller size, causing a memory leak as well as
- a mismatched FreeMem() report from debugging tools like MuGuardianAngel
- and MungWall.
- As an official fix for this is now quite unlikely to appear, I decided
- to release the patch I made myself a few months ago.
-
- THIS PATCH IS COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL. IT HAS NOT BE APPROVED BY AMIGA INC.
- OR BY HAAGE & PARTNER. BY USING IT ON YOUR SYSTEM, YOU ACCEPT THE ENTIRE
- RISK AS TO ITS QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE.
- PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DISKS BEFORE TRYING TO INSTALL THE PATCHED FFS ON YOUR
- AMIGA !!!
-
- Only this archive may be freely redistributed. The patched FastFileSystem
- generated by it contains code from the AmigaOS 3.9 FastFileSystem and is thus
- subject to the same restrictions than the original.
-
- The first released archive of this patch had a incorrect patch file included
- which will not work. If you downloaded it before February 6th, please get the
- new one.
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- You must have the 45.13 FastFileSystem from OS3.9 BB2 in your L: directory.
- First rename the 45.13 FastFileSystem to FastFileSystem.old, then, create the
- 45.14 FastFileSystem with the spatch command and the FastFileSystem4514.pch
- patch file included in this archive:
-
- spatch -pFastFileSystem4514.pch -oL:FastFileSystem L:FastFileSystem.old
-
- Finally, use your favourite harddisk installation tool (HDToolBox from OS3.9
- for example) to install the new FastFileSystem into your harddisk's rdb area.
-
- If you want this patched FFS to be also used for floppy drives, you need to
- make it resident using Thomas Richter's LoadModule command, available on
- Aminet as util/boot/LoadModule.lha. You also need to modify the SetPatch
- command in your Startup-Sequence to skip loading the 45.13 FFS from the ROM
- Update file by adding SKIPROMMODULES "filesystem" to the SetPatch command.
-