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« on: February 19, 2018, 03:14:03 pm »
[valerius] LewisR EA would be supported like FAT, e.g. with emulating
EA's via files, it it's needed. But the main purpose of ext2
support is not using as an OS/2 partition, but more as a means
for exchanging data with Linux.
I think this is a good point Valery brought up during the chat session. By the way, thank you Valery for a fully functional fat32 driver! I downloaded your latest driver and it works great. This is a must for every non Windows operating system. If we want to lure Linux users to try out ArcaOS, it needs an updated ext2 driver for them to access their linux systems. I agree with Valery that it is needed for the exchange of data. This could be another selling point. It would be nice also if there was a working NTFS driver for ArcaOS. I have tried Netdrive and it will not work (unless I have done something wrong).
[LewisR] VMs: Do we need VMs as in running ArcaOS as a hypervisor?
[LewisR] I don't see a 32-bit OS as a very useful hypervisor, personally,
though there are reasons to run smaller OSes under ArcaOS.
[Roderick] Well I tried the BWW Virtualbox and one big issue is that
ArcaOS can only use 4 GB of RAM. We have the new loader that
you can use a ramdrive.
Is it possible to do on-the-fly RAM compression to increase the amount of RAM available? Have 4 GB available , but when compressed, have more of the 4GB of RAM available for use. Remember when hard drives were compressed (Stacker 4 for OS/2, Zipstream) to give people more space due to the limitation of the drives back in the late 80's and early nineties. Due to the speed of RAM, there might not be too big of a performance hit.
With ArcaOS, one can now create a RAM drive and put in low and/orhigh memory. If this were feasible, an option could be make available to compress the RAM drive.
I wonder if 7-zip could be utilized to do any of this.
7-Zip is probably the leading free file compression software for Windows with its amazing ability to shrink files on the fly. It has advanced functionalities that include the capacity to produce solid and self-extracting archives as well as to modify password protection and compression level. Albeit it has a minimalistic interface, it is easy to understand and operate. 7-Zip supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM, and DEB. For a free software, the performance is close to perfection. stated by RAMESH NATARAJAN on SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 -Top Five File Compression software
David