xad_fs.lha driver/filesystem - Comments

daveyw (60.234.236.153) @ 15 Sep 2023, 04:40.23

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:40:23 +0200

By: daveyw (60.234.236.153)

Wow, can't believe I just discovered this... so insanely useful.

salass00 (91.150.16.96) @ 06 Apr 2014, 12:40.52

Sun, 06 Apr 2014 12:40:52 +0200

By: salass00 (91.150.16.96)

Forgot to write this in the readme but the env variable for the cache directory is in version 53.1 now called XADFS_CACHE_DIR instead of XADFS_TEMP_DIR as it was before.

PEB (99.141.31.142) @ 15 Sep 2010, 02:42.46

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:42:46 +0200

By: PEB (99.141.31.142)

@Fredrik 
 
Thank you so much for adding MountXAD! (It does work very well using this as the default tool for archives.)

orgin @ 13 Sep 2010, 04:31.08

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:31:08 +0200

By: orgin

@kas1e 
 
mountxad dh0:work/myfile.lha 
mountxad dh0:work/myotherfile.lha 
mountxad dh0:downloads/myotherfile.lha 
 
The xad virtual device would then have this directory structure: 
 
xad:dh0/ 
xad:dh0/work/ 
xad:dh0/work/myfile.lha/ 
xad:dh0/work/myotherfile.lha/ 
xad:dh0/downloads/ 
xad:dh0/downloads/myotherfile.lha/

kas1e (83.149.3.88) @ 12 Sep 2010, 07:51.07

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:51:07 +0200

By: kas1e (83.149.3.88)

@orgin 
But if you mount many files from dh0, then how it will be represented ? 
xad:dh0.1 xad:dh0.2 and so on ?

orgin @ 12 Sep 2010, 07:28.38

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:28:38 +0200

By: orgin

Hmm, how about making it behave as one single virtual file system instead? Each mount would represent itself as a directory entry in the xad: device. Much like ftpmount. 
 
examples: 
 
mounting dh0:work/myfile.lha would be exposed as: 
 
xad:dh0/work/myfile.lha/ 
 
mounting a second file dh1:downloads/2010/anotherfile.lha: 
 
xad:dh1/downloads/2010/anotherfile.lha/ 
 
At this point a "dir xad:" would display 
 
dh0 
dh1 
 
This way a file manager (such as the filer) would just have to mount a file and then just jump to the correct path without having to keep track of which number the file was mounted as (xad0: xad1: etc).

calicant (109.113.137.246) @ 05 Sep 2010, 10:20.27

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:20:27 +0200

By: calicant (109.113.137.246)

nice! and thank you for the source :-)