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- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: scsi drivers
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 12:34:26 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <199404271033.MAA21945@dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL> from "Bart Schuller" at Apr 27, 94 12:33:16 pm
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- >I think it's a great idea to integrate a scsi driver in MiNT.
- >We should however think about the interface that it offers to other
- >device drivers and especially to filesystems. Right now the only "real"
- >filesystem is minixfs, which has its own buffer cache. I have been
- >playing with the idea of adding the Linux ext2fs and msdos-fs to MiNT,
- >but it would be very stupid to require every FS to maintain its own
- >buffer cache of say, 100-200K.
- >
- >So, how about real unix-like block-devices, with (optional?) buffering?
-
- That was the sort of thing I was thinking of.
-
- Then, maybe, we could get the BSD4.4 fast filesystem running too. Then all
- we need is true drive mounting rather than the current "mount all partitions
- TOS knows about on /<letter."
-
- >Oh, and Claus: thank you for offering your great driver to the MiNT
- >community!
- >
- >Bart.
- >--
- > / Bart Schuller \
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- > \ Insert your favourite witty saying here, I can't choose! /
-
- Steve
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