Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:09:32 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: davidc@pdd.3com.com (David Clear) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Availability of Win95 Filesystem on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199603151409.QAA00631@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <22533.9603150857@isolan.pdd.3com.com> from "David Clear" at Mar 15, 96 09:00:55 am
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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, David Clear wrote: > Hi, Two questions: > > + Can FreeBSD 2.1 msdosfs read/write my Windows 95 partition with long > file names? There's no long name support at present. > > + Can I trust FreeBSD not to trash my '95 filesystem? (I remember in > the past, the msdos filesystem was write-once, read-no-more). If you avoid using FIPS to set up your partitions, there is a _good chance_ of using the msdosfs successfully, but currently no more than that. > If the answer to either of those is no, are there any estimates on when > this may happen? (ok, 3 questions) The msdosfs is actively being worked on at the moment. The new code is not complete, however, and when it is, will still need to make it through testing. So a final delivery date is uncertain. However, an enhanced version of 'mtools' has recently been released, so this may be of some use in the meantime. -- Robert Nordier
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