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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem installing from 2.2-960612-SNAP
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:54:18 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <29295.836209428@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 1, 96 01:23:48 am
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> > 	_if_ you originally had all disk devoted to DOS,
> > 
> > 	_and_ you used FIPS later to repartition your disk and
> > 	free some space for FreeBSD at the end,
> 
> Yes, this theory has come up before.  The only problem, of course,
> is that it still doesn't help us fix msdosfs. :-)

Institute devfs.

I will write logical volume management.

msdosfs will operate against a logical volume, and requests out of range
for the logical device will be trapped.

Problem solved.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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