From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Aug 28 16:49:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27448 for fs-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA27434 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k2.cup.hp.com (k2.cup.hp.com [15.0.97.218]) by palrel1.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16867 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by k2.cup.hp.com with SMTP (8.7.1/8.7.3 TIS Messaging 5.0) id QAA04510 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708282349.QAA04510@k2.cup.hp.com> X-Authentication-Warning: k2.cup.hp.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol Reply-To: jmattson@wco.com To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: MS-DOS file system issues Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:49:01 -0700 From: Jim Mattson Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I see that fixing the MS-DOS file system is a high priority task, but just exactly how broken is it? I mount most of my logical DOS drives ro out of paranoia, but I've got one small throw-away partition mounted rw for pushing things over to the Win95 world. I keep waiting for it to eat my data, and it hasn't happened yet. I would like to see Win95 long filename support, and I'd be willing to work on that, but are there more fundamental flaws that I'm missing? Thanks, --jim