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From: James Craig <9606585c@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
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To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: fd0* device for ADFS shape discs under i386 Linux
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> James Craig
> > Yeah, I can quite definately see the problem. However, could we store a
> > hash table of recently-accessed-inodes and just cache their directory
> > info? It's not like you can't search and ADFS filesystem for a particular
> > ID, it just takes a while. For small enough numbers of files, (say a
> > floppy) you could do it at mount/umount time.
<snip>
> > Truly. I've written ADFS file readers and writers before, but I've never
> > tried integrating one into a totally different OS's idea of a filing
> > system. In the meantime, we could probably fairly quickly code up an ADFS
> > equivalent of the mtools for DOS - The old IscaFS that Phil Norman wrote
> > would do the job just fine if we could manage to fiddle it to run under
> > Linux. :)
>
> Uhh.. IscaFS reads ext2 filesystems from RISC OS. So does ExeterFS
> (IscaFS is an image filesystem and is extremely sexy. ExeterFS is more
> like Spark and has a number of bugs.)
Yep, sorry all, I was seriously confused when I wrote that bit.
I'll just go shoot myself. ;)
I think the next best thing I have is a set of old ADFS E-format
readers/writers I wrote for the BBC B+ in BASIC. Time to get to work on
them again. :)
BTW, anyone know - ARM linux OK with 4 floppy drives on an A410/1?
> --
> Set Alias$Case Set Alias$[ |||| |MSet Alias$Otherwise Set Alias$[ \ Matthew
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Must try tying that in sometime, and seeing what happens. :)
--
James Craig <jcraig@mad.scientist.com>
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