OpenEuphoria

Re: OT: CoLinux revisited (was Re: Idea List: #0002)

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Feb 06, 2006
• 420 views

ags wrote:
> 
> Al Getz wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > What is there to misunderstand?
> >   "The cofs driver has a nasty habit of occasionally
> >    totally scrambling the root image"
> > That can't be good, can it?
> > 
> > But still, if i did misunderstand something then i need to know
> > what it is that's really happening with this problem before i 
> > would want to install 'CoLinux'.  Somebody tell me :)
> 
> Perhaps I should also say that there is actually no need to use the 'cofs'
> feature.  I definitely don't use it on my production systems.  It is a system
> where instead of mounting a hard drive or cd rom or ram disk in the Linux
> system you are mounting a part of the windows file system.
> 
> It's a quick way to copy files to and from Windows or Linux, but could be 
> achieved just as easily (and saferly) with samba windows file sharing or FTP.
> 
> Gary

Hi again Gary,


Perhaps you can tell me what exactly gets corrupted when this problem
occurs?  Matt had suggested that maybe the problem isnt as bad as it
sounds so maybe you can explain what happens.  Does the whole drive
get corrupted (ie the 'fat' record) or just *part* of the drive, or
just one file that Linux uses, or what, (exactly) ?


Take care,
Al

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