Hi Georg, > I would go for your third alternative and try to map e.g. an ext2 formatted > disk to a FAT32 disk for DOS. This has some problems which you can observe > with the utilities which make an ext2 disk available for Windows. It could > be done within a single block device driver and you could then use the > existing FAT32 support within FreeDOS to access the files and directories > on the ext2 disk.
But... Why? There is zero similarity between ext2 and FAT32. Using the network redirector API would be a lot easier there. I would not even know where to start making an imaginary FAT style file allocation table based on an existing ext2 drive. Plus each time that you look at the virtual FAT, it has to look the same and each time that you change the ext2 content the imaginary FAT has to change in a consistent way etc etc. Regards, Eric PS: Between the lines, you say some Windows ext2 drivers still do exactly this and simulate FAT, in spite of all disadvantages? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
