[openbeos] Re: build problems

"Imre Leber" <imre.leber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ah, no, it's the disk scanner module. As there isn't any need to 
> > build
> > it until we can build it for our kernel, I've removed it from the
> > build.
> PS. What is a disk scanner module? I seem to find on the web site 
> that it is
> to detect which kind of file system you have, but that is not very 
> clear to
> me. For example the code to see which kind if FAT is (from official
> microsoft documentation):
> 
> int DetermineFATType(struct BootSectorStruct* boot)
> {
>       ...
> }
> 
> But i do not know exactly if this is what you want.

At least, it's part of it. The disk_scanner modules will recognize the 
on-disk layout of any mass storage medium.
I.e. you have an old Apple hard drive lying around - the disk scanner 
module will recognize the Apple partitioning style, all partitions 
therein, and eventually all known file systems that are put onto those 
partitions.
And in fact, that's a stupid example, since it's the same for all 
what's in your PC, everytime you are going to boot it :-)

Adios...
   Axel.

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