Extracting Dosfs

[Bogdan Vacaliuc]

Hi Daniel,

You may want to follow the ongoing "Formatting DOSFS volume" thread in RTEMS:

http://www.rtems.com/ml/rtems-users/2004/october/msg00086.html

The RDCF2 code (http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~pje/rdcf2.txt) may be just what you are looking for if you are not interested in running
inside an RTEMS environment.  The code is stand-alone and compiles readily under GNU/Linux, Cygwin, etc.

Best Regards,

-bogdan


On Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:37 AM, Victor V. Vengerov wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> Have in mind that libblock depends on some RTEMS synchnorisation
> mechanisms, and run the thread writing blocks to the disk. Also,
> ms-dos file system and libblock has been designed with mulithreading
> in mind, which may be overhead for you. More free open-source MS-DOS
> implementations are exists (I remember freedos name, although I'm not
> sure) - may be it is better appropriate for you.
> 
> I don't know what are you going to implement, but it will be
> definitievly simpler to link your application with RTEMS, considering
> it as a library providing some services, particularly DOS file system.
> Nothing prevent you to implement single-threaded application in RTEMS
> - just run it as a initialisation task.
> 
> Victor
> Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am interested in extracting Dosfs in Rtems 4.6.1 to a separate
>> module that shall work stand-alone with a commandpromt. The module
>> should use a block based ram driver like a simulated disk. Before I
>> start I would like to ask if somebody has done the same thing or
>> knows any good approaches? The main questions I would like to have
>> an answer to is the following: 
>> 
>> 1. What does the file structure of dosfs look like? Which files are
>> necessary for a stand-alone module? Which files are connected to the
>> different layers (driver, upper interface etc.) of the file system?
>> 
>> 2. Where should I start? Any tips is greatly accepted?
>> 
>> 3. Can somebody tell me about any constraints or limitations of the
>> fs (max partition size etc.)? 
>> 
>> 4. Does anyone know the footprint of dosfs in RAM during runtime?
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> Daniel Gustavsson