From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 9 04:34:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27640 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 04:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27632 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 04:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA25636; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:33:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:33:41 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Blackman Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem. References: <199809091038.LAA07810@bird.te.rl.ac.uk> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 09 Sep 1998 13:33:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: Mark Blackman's message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:38:47 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA27636 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Blackman writes: > Thanks for clearing that up for me. So in summary, the > od/scsi-related patches in kern-7210 are superceded by the CAM work, > but the msdosfs-related patches are still meant to be applied if you > want this 2048-byte block functionality in msdosfs. Such is my understanding. > This then would imply (questions of labour aside) that the > msdosfs-related patches are appropriate for inclusion in CURRENT at > some convenient point, no? It would seem so, yes. > I do understand that there literally hundreds of more important > things for the kernel gods to address, but I just want to add my > (possibly irrelevant) vote for increasing it's priority somewhat. I'm not a kernel god, but I'm a committer and I have an MO drive at home, and the PR is assigned to me anyway. I'm very forgetful though, so feel free to refresh my memory at regular intervals :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message