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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Request to Commodore (Fast File System)
Message-ID: <8808291950.AA12753@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 29 Aug 88 19:50:25 GMT
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:  I was thinking a while back about the Fast File System not being put on the
:  floppies  in AmigaDos 1.3.  It is  my  understanding  that   the  Fast file
:  system will  not work  on the  floppies  because  it is  not installed when
:  the Amiga boots, and Commodore is  not putting  the FFS  in ROM  because of
:  compatibility with the existing file system.  Is this true?

	No, because except for autoboot the roms are not being changed AT ALL
for the 1.3 release.  By know, it is wayyyy to late to put anything else in
the roms anyway (unless you want to wait another year for 1.3).

	But I haven't found this to be a problem.. really.  You just reserve
two or three cyls of your HD using the old filesystem so you can boot off of
it (assuming the driver supports autoboot) and put the rest on the new 
filesystem. 

:  If this IS true, then I have a suggestion:
:
:  Why not put the FFS in ROM, and if someone wants to access files in the old
:  format then they can install the Slow File System for  the device  on which
:  they will be accessing the files.  This way people can install the old file
:  system on a drive and transferer  everything over  to the  FFS once.   This
:  will get  rid of the problem of having a Slow File System boot partition on
:  the hard drive, and will make those of us using only floppies happy.

	What I would like to see is an unmount command.... to unmount a 
device (i.e. DF0:) then remount it under the new filesystem.  Even better,
have the OS detect the disk format (easily done) and use the proper filesystem.
	
							-Matt