AROS Research Operating System
Downloads
AROS-20080317-i386-pc-boot-iso
(md5 checksum)
Official section
TeXlive
AROS TeXlive material
Todo - wish list
Amiga DOS packets vs the AROS DOS interface
Notes from a talk on irc #aros with mschulz and olivier2222.
Some known problems:
- we have our own unique DOS insterface with the
file system handlers
- we have a compatibility layer for regular DOS packets
atop of that
- SFS handler can handle regular DOS packets, but has
a compatibility layer to receive data from our interface,
so if an application is sending a regular DOS packet
to the SFS handler, the packet has to traverse two
compatibility layers !
Problems we like to tackle:
- avoid too many context switchs
- ability to abort a current operation with the handler
Things that will be nice to have:
- a filesystem interface for I/O, cache and storage
(and network maybe)
- defined in C++ to enforce design rules
- write a Fuse wrapper for this new interface
File systems related stuff
- unify all the current file systems code in AROS (if the above points
are solved, this will be likely the case), because cut & pasted
code is bad
AROS DOS library
- introduce the transaction concept (for rename + overwrite, ...)
- add functions like DeleteFromFH, RenameFromFH
Curiosities
Nice AROS crash when trying TeXlive on an AFFS partition.