> That's great! This gives me more motivation to finish the fastfat
> rewrite and test your branch with that driver.
>
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:21 PM, <
ayerkes@speakeasy.net>
> <
ayerkes@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm pleased to announce that I've been able to boot reactos to the
>> shell from an ext2 partition. This is something we've wanted for a
>> long time and many of us have worked on. I've synced up arty-newcc
>> to the current state of my git repository. This work is
>> experimental, not quite complete, and has some important limitations:
>>
>> - It probably won't currently work for a partition larger than 4gig
>> and might even fail for one larger than 2gig. This limitation is
>> lifted by other, unrelated code in my tree that I haven't merged yet.
>>
>> - It probably has a lot more bugs left, especially in block
>> allocation for large files.
>>
>> - Some parts of the new section implementation leak pages.
>>
>> I was planning to, but haven't yet made the new and old cache and
>> cc and section implementations available side by side. The main
>> work of separating the new files involved in the section
>> implementation (now in ntoskrnl/mm/section/*) is done. This will be
>> necessary when I merge it into the main tree, at least for
>> regression testing.
>>
>> Despite the branch being named for me, I invite anyone to work on,
>> modify, or bugfix arty-newcc. This advance has been a long time
>> coming, and I'd like to thank everyone for keeping the faith.
>
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