On 19/03/2010 10:24, jess hampshire wrote:
On 16 March 2010 17:33, David J. Ruck<druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Then a NAS is a very cheap solution available right now. It does not require several many years of OS work to develop a new filing system stack, which is of very little practical value without drastic improvements to hardware and non existent applications to exploit it.There is at least one application that would make use of a revamped filing system (although in this case it is the 2GB file limit, rather than maximum disk capacity)
Well that's an even worse problem. We could either extend FileCore format, or even replace it with an entirely different low level format and gain access to terrabyte discs with absolutely no changes to existing software, they would continue to use the same FileSwitch APIs and be none the wiser. (Even the free space command is 64bit).
If however we lift the 2GB limit, we have to take the huge step of implementing an entire new filing system stack and along with a new API, and only software re-written to use it will benefit from it. Such software would be image filing systems (FAT32FS already catering for the most popular) and DVD writing software for the handful of users with DVD writers. The vast majority of RISC OS software will never be updated, and will never be able to handle >2GB files, even if sensible to do so.
I would have bought DVDBurn by now if I could (easily) exchange full size DVD isos with other platforms.
DVDBurn can write full sized DVDs by using multiple files, why is there a need to exchange the ISOs themselves? Anything downloaded from the internet wont be RISC OS specific data, so burn them using another platform.
Usually the problem for RISC OS users is lack of software or underpowered hardware or both. In this case, the software and hardware are fine,but RISC OS filesystem is the showstopper.
But again, such a change would entail an enormously disproportionate amount of OS work to solve a problem affecting a small number of users.
The real need for >2GB files has been alleviated by the creation of FAT32FS. Work like that is a far better use of the very limited development resources still left on this platform.
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