>On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> I don't like umsdos personally. Have you considered using a file on the
>> msdos filesystem with an ext2 filesystem on it instead? I have a machine
>> with its root filesystem mounted on /dev/loop0. A little playing with
>> initrd makes this quite easy. This means you have no need for a untfs
>> (and in my case, no need for a uadfs).
>
>Five reasons to not to use this:
>- You can not resize an ext2fs image - repartitioning is better, because
>FIPS, presizer or Partition Magic can resize msdos partitions
>- You can not read az ext2fs image from dos
>- It will be slow (ok, umsdos is slow too)
>- A newbie will never be able to set up a looproot distribution
>- Looproot is problematic and untested (for example it does not work in
>vfat but works on an msdos partition)
>
>I think, a general ums-like pseudo-ext2-fs over not only umsdos, but all
>non unix-compatible fs were very good and useful for the linux community.
I would like this as well. In fact I have been looking at the
possibility of UMSSMB so that my Linux system could steal some space, and
efficiently use as a native filesystem, from a networked DOS/WFW
3.11/Win9x/WinNT.
>
>MaXX
>
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