[ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ekohl] 61145: [FASTFAT] FsdGetFsVolumeInformation: Return volume creation time.

[Steven Edwards]

Look at how the Core Fonts for the Web are handled. We should have generic
drivers that are 'good enough' to be able get online and download the
Microsoft ones if the user wants to take the risk of violating Microsofts
license.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote:

> These are all legitimate concerns for a FAT driver, but keep in mind the
> WDK library also has things like large chunks of the storage stack, the
> input stack, the floppy stack, audio and network stuff, etc...
>
> We could decide to keep our current FAT driver (or find a workaround), but
> still implement this idea for the other drivers.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Michael Fritscher <michael at fritscher.net>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> normally, I wouldn't have any problem with having drivers on a second disc
>> / image. But FAT (and in particular cdfs) are core-drivers in my opinion,
>> which are needed almost every time - also for booting from CD for
>> installation. FAT is widely used still today, e.g. on usb-sticks.
>>
>> What are currently the biggest problems in these drivers? If remember
>> correctly, our cache manager isn't compatible to the one in Windows, and
>> these drivers have workarounds, is it?
>>
>> Perhaps the drivers could be written by a GSoC project or something like
>> that?
>>
>> Additionally, what about NTFS? Is there a ntfs-driver in the MSDN-library
>> as is the FAT-driver? If not, almost nothing is won if we use the
>> fat-driver from MS: The OS- dependent part of the ntfs-driver need to be
>> written from scratch from us anyway, which could then be reused by our
>> FAT-driver. And hey, the filesystem part of the FAT-driver shouldn't be
>> too complicated if we managed to write a NTFS-driver^^
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Michael Fritscher
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ros-dev mailing list
>> Ros-dev at reactos.org
>> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ros-dev mailing list
> Ros-dev at reactos.org
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>



-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is
an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/attachments/20131202/36b84647/attachment.html>