From megalith!errors@uunet.uu.net Thu Jun 9 03:39:48 1994 Received: from relay3.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.5) id AA17592; Thu, 9 Jun 94 03:33:18 PDT Received: from uucp5.uu.net by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP (rama) id QQwtnm09867; Thu, 9 Jun 1994 06:31:24 -0400 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp5.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL ; Thu, 9 Jun 1994 06:31:25 -0400 Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16.20/w5, Dec 29 1993, 21:22:55) id <1m9q@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Thu, 9 Jun 94 02:46:58 EDT -0400 Sender: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: MC6489@mclink.it (Nicola Salmoria) Message-Number: 850 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce X-Newssoftware: CSAA NMS 1.2 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 02:46:56 -0400 (EDT) From: MC6489@mclink.it (Nicola Salmoria) (CSAA) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions) Subject: (CSAA) MultiFileSystem 1.0 Status: RO TITLE MultiFileSystem - share multiple file systems under a single device name VERSION 1.0 AUTHOR Nicola Salmoria DESCRIPTION Thanks to the versatility of AmigaDOS, we are able to use many different file systems on our disks. The most popular is of course CrossDOS (tm), but many other file systems can be found in the PD. Adding a new file system to the Amiga is simplicity itself: just copy a file in L:, provide a suitable mountlist, and there you go. This works flawlessy if every physical unit is accessed by a single file system, but if multiple file systems share the same device, some problems arise: - You have to call the same unit with different names (e.g. DF0: and PC0:) depending of the kind of disk inserted. - When you insert a PC disk, the Workbench shows a DF0:???? icon, and vice versa; this can be very annoying especially for owners of more than one drive. - When a file system is busy (for example during a DiskCopy), the other file systems can still access the disk; this goes against the concept of "inhibiting" a device. MultiFileSystem solves all of these problems. It isn't a file system in the usual way: it is an interface to other file systems. When you mount it, you tell it which file systems it should use; afterwards, when a disk is inserted, MultiFileSystem will recognize it and pass the commands to the appropriate file system. This means that with a single device name, for example DF0:, you can access any conceivable file system! You are not limited to floppy drives, of course: I successfully installed MultiFileSystem over a 128Mb magnetooptical drive. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS OS release 2.1 or newer HOST NAME Any Aminet site, for example ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/disk/misc FILE NAME mfs.lha PRICE Free DISTRIBUTABILITY Freeware, freely distributable as long as the archive remains intact and only a nominal fee is charged for its distribution. -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu. ============================================================================ This is part of a mailing list gateway maintained by Carlos Amezaga. Bugs & comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. Subscribes, UnSubcribes, help and faq requests should be sent to announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu.