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- kickstart/fs
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- Added 64 bit support according to the new style device based
- trackdisk64 standard. Notification should work well now for
- SetComment, SetFileDate, SetProtection, and SetOwner.
- Added UID/GID identification support via Envoy for symmetry.
- Will use TD_ADDCHANGEINT instead of TD_REMOVE. This may help
- some devices! I am not sure yet if we should ignore
- non IOERR_NOCMD devices and simply try a query and
- TD_GETGEOMETRY on the device. Handles cylinder numbers >64K for
- special types of devices now. Reworked half a ton of signed
- compares. Should no longer mess up on comment lengths or
- filename lengths >=128. No longer sets the dircache pointer in
- the root block for non dircache modes. There is a slight chance
- that files could be sized from 0 to 4GB-2 bytes now. This has not
- been tested and you must make sure that any SW trying to use
- this checks for -1 as error code exactly as positions are
- obviously unsigned in that case. Froze 43.11.
- If there was an early startup problem, it didn't always fail
- correctly. This should be better now. Note well that the V43
- FFS tends to rely on the trackdisk device feature set defined
- for >=V36, so with very old hardware and/or bad drivers, you
- may have problems. Incidentally, none have been reported yet.
- Froze 43.12.
- In a low memory situation, the fs could set a wrong disk type.
- Fixed a failure path that I had added in a messed up state and
- a restart should work as expected again now. For an underlying
- NSD device, FFS will use TD_GETGEOMETRY now if needed.
- Currently, the NSD query is only activated for >4GB partitions.
- Maybe this should change. This needs further research though.
- Froze 43.13.
- Envoy accounts support is only available if accounts.library is
- already loaded.
- Froze 43.14.
-
- Use HDToolBox to test this filesystem. Note that partitions
- exceeding the 32 bit range may confuse some SW like Info,
- Workbench, HDToolBox in some areas. Please note well that Amiga
- International, Inc. supports only the New Style Device API for future
- enhancements to devices in general as documented on the Developer
- CD, with updates distributed via ftp.amiga.de. The V43 FFS uses NSD
- to determine device capabilities and will not use 64 Bit commands
- on non NSD devices. As the OS drivers and many 3rd party devices
- tend to get upgraded to use NSD right now, this is not expected to
- be a problem. It is also expected that this filesystem may fail on
- some very old/bad harddisk controllers that don't even implement
- the V37 device specifications correctly. Bug reports on this are
- welcome.
-
- For details on requirements for underlying devices, please check
- the included documents, the DevInfo section of the current Amiga
- Developer CD and/or ftp.amiga.de for the current versions of the
- included documents.
-
- Heinz Wrobel
- <heinz@amiga.de>
-