Simplest (practical) file system

From: Al Kossow <aek_at_spies.com>
Date: Mon Jul 28 16:35:01 2003

 The biggest problem that I see here is that Bob wants to be able to use
this OS on systems that have as little as 16k words but still use LARGE
modern drives.

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I have been thinking about this a LOT lately relating to using older
CPUs with few or none of the original peripherals, and it may make
sense, since you're building an IDE interface anyway, to build a 
file level interface onto the card, rather than talking to the drive
as an unstructured block device. The idea I've been toying with is
building an interface card like this with a local processor, disc,
ethernet, etc. and using it in conjuction with a remote system that
would provide the console / debugging UI / shared peripherals for
a bunch of different processors that I have.
This would also reduce the in-core footprint of the OS, since
the file system (and networking in my case) is handled on the
interface card.

Received on Mon Jul 28 2003 - 16:35:01 BST