LBACACHE on FreeDOS: Sector Caching Without Gambling with Writes
How FreeDOS LBACACHE accelerates BIOS sector reads, uses XMS, observes writes without delaying them, reports hit rates, and unloads safely.
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How FreeDOS LBACACHE accelerates BIOS sector reads, uses XMS, observes writes without delaying them, reports hit rates, and unloads safely.
A write-minimized preservation workflow for floppy and hard-disk media using stable identity, raw images, checksums, read logs, and duplicate-image tests.
A safe procedure for wsl --mount covering Windows disk ownership, filesystem support, read-only inspection, and clean detachment.
A safe BFS mount-and-repair workflow using hardware detection, DriveSetup, check-only mode, backups, the correct checkfs syntax, and logs.
Each WSL2 distro lives inside a dynamically-expanding .vhdx file that grows with use but never shrinks back down automatically after deletions.