2 Dec
2013
2 Dec
'13
2:37 p.m.
Hi,
normally, I wouldn't have any problem with having drivers on a second disc
/ image. But FAT (and in particular cdfs) are core-drivers in my opinion,
which are needed almost every time - also for booting from CD for
installation. FAT is widely used still today, e.g. on usb-sticks.
What are currently the biggest problems in these drivers? If remember
correctly, our cache manager isn't compatible to the one in Windows, and
these drivers have workarounds, is it?
Perhaps the drivers could be written by a GSoC project or something like
that?
Additionally, what about NTFS? Is there a ntfs-driver in the MSDN-library
as is the FAT-driver? If not, almost nothing is won if we use the
fat-driver from MS: The OS- dependent part of the ntfs-driver need to be
written from scratch from us anyway, which could then be reused by our
FAT-driver. And hey, the filesystem part of the FAT-driver shouldn't be
too complicated if we managed to write a NTFS-driver^^
Best regards,
Michael Fritscher