what, you've strapped *journaling* on to a FAT FS ? Never heard of anyone doing that before :-D
And that "session scoped writes" feature would be very useful in the old days in an IT classroom at our school. People could be allowed to bring in all sorts of junk and try any sort of abuse to the file system, and after a power-cycle, all of their shenanigans would be gone... Like a huge RAMdisk, only without the need for filthy volumes of RAM at the diskless client. Frank On 17 Aug 2024 at 9:13, Michael Brutman wrote: > > The code doesn't actually care if an image is a floppy image or a hard > drive image; it's just a FAT12, FAT16, or FAT16B image and all are > supported. > > There are two good use cases for floppy images: > * Mounting a driver disk temporarily over the network to copy > something > from it without having to dig out physical media. > * Inspection: > * you can use the "read only " flag on the client or mark the disk > image read only on the server side to avoid accidental changes. * > You can use "session scoped writes" to simulate allowing writes and > changes, without actually changing the underlying disk image. And > don't forget ASSIGN.COM ... I've mounted a disk image using NETDRIVE > and then used ASSIGN.COM to remap the drive letter, allowing me to use > software that insisted on being run from drive A: > > The journaling feature can also be used to avoid accidental changes to > the underlying image. > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM Frantisek Rysanek > <frantisek.rysa...@post.cz > wrote: > That's pretty cool :-) > Needs much less conventional RAM compared to the MS LanMan. > Resembles iSCSI or AoE or NBD, and even has "COW snapshot like" > functionality, controlled from the client side... all of that in DOS. > Priceless :-) > > The floppy emulation probably won't help in trouble cases where some > obscure old software requires access to a physical floppy drive > (that's where physical emulators come in handy) but even those > marginal cases aside, this is very cool. > > Frank > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
