Subj : Re: Computer Broken
To   : tenser
From : apam
Date : Mon Sep 15 2025 11:02 pm

 > Oh great!  It's surprising how long a small bug like that can
 > last, and how far you can still get while it does.

Oh I know!

 > Honestly, it's probably not worth it, and if you've got a working
 > fat implementation, then no need to bother.  It may be interesting,
 > though!

Yeah, I'm not sure it'w worth it either - unless I'm wanting to learn how
FUSE works (which may be a good way to port file system drivers in the
future? hmm)

 > Hey, that's great!  No need to futz around with the Minix3 FS, then.

Yup, when I first started writing this OS, I had used FAT, but my
implementation was very buggy and I ended up getting minix filesystem
working as a second filesystem, and it worked better so I just removed my
fat code.

Finding the FatFS driver was great though, because it's already well
tested - having a filesystem that I can rely on means easier to find
other bugs.. it's hard to debug your programs when they don't even load
off the disk correctly!

Are you still working on that Rust port of .... I can't remember the name
of that OS - was a unix os that got ported to RISCV i think...

Andrew


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