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- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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- > 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?
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- > Set Alias$Case Set Alias$[ |||| |MSet Alias$Otherwise Set Alias$[ \ Matthew
- > "" |MSet Alias$When If %0=%%0 Then Set Alias$[ "" ||MIf %0=%%0 \ Wilcox
- > Then Set Alias$Otherwise Set Alias$[ |||||||||||||||| ||MIf \
- > %0=%%0 Then Set Alias$When Set Alias$[ ||||||||||||||||
- Must try tying that in sometime, and seeing what happens. :)
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- James Craig <jcraig@mad.scientist.com>
- <9606585c@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
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