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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, root@synthcom.com
Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes
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>What is currently broken in the DOS file system for FreeBSD? I see there's an

Deadlocks are possible for file lookup (locking is too strong/wrong).
Locking in some other places is too weak.  rename() sometimes
(deterministically) updates the wrong directory entries.  I/O is
extremely inefficient, especially if the cluster size is small.

Bruce