

				IscaFS - ReadMe
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			Version 0.05, 28th May, 1998


PLEASE read ALL of this file.  It won't take you long, and it'll be worth it (probably).

I'm currently very tired and about to go to bed, so I'll keep this brief.

A few things have happened since 0.04, and these are documented in the 'Changes' and 'ChangeLog' files.  IscaFS seems to be completely bug-free (except for the small matter of one unsupported feature which is hardly ever used and will be a pain in the neck to implement).  I plan to completely rewrite the cacheing routines for the next release version, since I recently thought up a far more cunning cacheing algorithm (while trying to revise for exams) which will have some major speed benefits, as well as benefits for future bug-prevention with write code.

After that there's a nice filing system thing I want to try out, and then it's back to trying to get IscaFS to read/write.

Currently there is a small amount of read/write in IscaFS - it will enable you to change the filetypes of files in ext2 images (not in partitions), but only if you enable this by setting the correct configuration option in 'b.Config'.  I STRONGLY advise you don't enable this since it hasn't been very thoroughly tested - if you nuke your hard drive that's your problem.  I should point out that changing filetype information is very easy and that doing other write operations will be considerably more difficult, and so will take a lot longer to do.  So don't hold your breath.

Anyway, that's about it.  I'm off to bed now.  Bye,
Phil

P.S. As usual, any bug reports or comments are appreciated.
