One of the reasons to use a looped filesystem as opposed to the UMSDOS
filesystem is space. Since UNIX/Linux use small files all over the place,
those files take up 32K on a large 1GB DOS partition. If you use the
looped filesystem (which is really a large, plain file to DOS), the Linux
ext2 filesystem handles these small files much better and DOS only sees
one large 200MB file.
The only downfall of this is that the root filesystem is a set file size
and I don't know of any Linux utilities that can change it's size as free
space requirements change. Anyone familiar with the looped FS able to
write up a shrink/grow program?
Dan
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