[haiku-development] Re: [RFC] fat initialization function -- fat driver

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:22:47 +0200

Marco Minutoli wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 01:20:20 +0200
> Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > It would nevertheless be nice, if fatfs supported the FS initialization 
> > API, so that e.g. DriveSetup can use the generic API to initialize FAT 
> > volumes, instead of implementing a special case. Maybe code from mkdos 
> > can be reused in the FS module.
> > 
> > CU, Ingo
> > 
> 
> yep and that's what I thought but I wasn't aware of mkdos. Is it worth 
> anyway to do an addon?

Yes, I would certainly want one! mkdos is nice, but useless from within 
DriveSetup, but I believe this is what most people would try to use for the 
task. If the code in mkdos can be reused, all the better. :-)

Best regards,
-Stephan

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