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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:27:32 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Warren Gale" <warren.gale@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Compact Flash File System Cougar??
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:11:10 -0700 "Warren Gale"
<warren.gale@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy,
> 
>  
> 
>             I think I'm starting to get the hang of the diffs between
> ufs and ext2 file systems.
> 
>  
> 
> I pretty sure I have the higher level, but I'm struggling with the
> actual I/O section of EXT2FS stuff (:-))
> 
>  
> 
> Last we talked I thought I heard you say something like the file
> system on the CF will be like DOS ??
> 
>   DOS partitions?

Yeah, it will use a DOS partition table, but...


> I'm trying to get the "io_manager" section of the ext2fs structures to
> have the right functions to call, to actually talk
> to the hardware.
> 
>  
> 
> The "DOS" examples seem to be the best fit so far. ( replace the bios
> functions with our hardware functions)

Uh, what others are there besides the DOS/bios functions?  The bios
functions are quite obtuse and arcane and likely to be very bad
examples.

a
