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- Here is UMSDOS beta 0.3. It took a long time. Mostly the time
- to track difficult bugs I could not reproduce. Thanks to the
- few testers who worked hard trying to reproduce them.
-
- Release 0.3 is fully compatible with 0.2.
- It contains important bug fixes. Those having problems with
- X in particular should be happy now :-)
- This is a source only release. A binary one will follow later.
- It patches agains linux kernel 1.1.12.
-
- Please, test it out. Time has come for Umsdos to get into
- the standard kernel distribution... Again, test it, send
- me reports, etc (positive or negative). If all goes well,
- I will email Linus about this.
-
- It is available from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/BETA/umsdos
-
- Here is a small intro...
-
- UMSDOS is a filesystem for LINUX. It is a full feature
- unix-like filesystem running on top of a normal MsDOS FAT filesystem.
-
- It has been written by Jacques Gelinas jacques@solucorp.qc.ca
-
- Umsdos is a full-feature Unix like FS on top of a FAT MsDOS fs ?
- Full-feature ???
-
- Long file name
- -Case sensitive
- -This.Is.An...Exemple
- -220 char max.
- Links (both hard and symbolics)
- Now I know why they are called "hard" links :-)
- Pipes and special device file.
- Permissions, owner, group
- Atime,Ctime and Mtime with full Unix semantics.
-
- Powerful enough to be a root fs for Linux.
- Yet CHKDSK won't see anything wrong with all this.
-
- testers have installed any kind of standard stuff. To
- name a few (Andrew, X, GCC, News).
-
- Is Umsdos useful ?
-
- UMSDOS is perfect to test drive linux without trouble. No
- reformat, no new partition.
-
- It is also a good idea for those who need DOS and don't want
- to split the disk in two "too small" parts. Perfect also
- for those who need to share data with DOS on an ongoing basis.
-
- It is also a good idea for those who already splits the disk and
- need more space for Linux. It allows linux to slowly eat the
- DOS partition. UMSDOS will be an important part of the
- "LINUX invasion" :-)
-
- Because reformatting is a major concern to many, especially when
- you are unsure if you need linux, I believe Umsdos will be the
- most used FS for linux (not the best though).
-
-
- There are still missing pieces:
-
- Some performance enhancement of UMSDOS directory
- manipulation (A small directory cache).
- Some performance enhancement of the Linux MSDOS drivers.
- (not obvious but I have some idea...)
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