Hi Leo,

> Up until now, the atari kernel treated the msdosfs like it was a gemdos
> made filesystem automatically. The msdosfs kernel code contained a bunch
> of '#ifdef atari' statements to accomplish this. As this was:
> 	1) 'Could be done better' programming
> 	2) Did not permit you to use the 'real' msdosfs

Actually, it did. Only the other way around (use gemdosfs on an i386)
was not possible.

> In practice, this means that you should add the '-G' flag when you mount
> an msdosfs that was created by GEM, and leave it out when mounting filesystems
> created by msdos or tools that create filesystems compliant to it (like
> newdosfs).

If anyone is interested in a newdosfs, that creates gemdos file
systems, I've written one.


Waldi