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- Quite a few things have changed in pl5. The NUM_MINIX compilation option has
- gone away as well as restricting the number of minix partitions to NUM_MINIX.
- I've made quite a few bug fixes wrt large partitions; some of the things were
- just plain wrong: minit -t didn't work properly and minit would not create huge
- partitions without XHDI compliance. minit -t now sends some debugging info
- which should be checked (partition boundaries) before invoking the full minit.
- There have been reports that under XHDI huge partitions work OK except that
- minixfs/fsck don't work with 65535 inodes (the maximum allowed for V2 fses):
- this bug should also be fixed.
- In case I didn't make it clear before: a huge partition is one in which
- the logical sector size is bigger than 1K. In practice this means a partition
- size of bigger than 64Mb (or perhaps 32Mb).
- Minixfs can now be operated in three modes: Robust which makes it almost
- bomb proof (and slow), Normal which is the same behaviour as before and Turbo
- which only writes data out periodically and is somewhat quicker. To set the
- mode edit the CACHE_MODE line in 'config.h' and recompile. Turbo mode can cause
- excessive disk swapping in single drive systems when copying from A: to B: this
- will be fixed in later versions. Another bug is when you force a media change
- on a V2 partition (e.g. ESC with desktop) this makes an alert appear. This is a
- bit tricky to fix but I'm looking into it.
- Another thing to note is that running GEM programs under non Multi TOS
- can stop the updater working properly install the program 'nohog.acc' as a DA to
- prevent this.
- A binary configuration program is under construction which allows many
- of the parameters to be set without recompilation e.g. cache sizes, cache mode
- default translation modes etc.
-