From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 06:14:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA05697 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA05594 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00816; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 23:56:50 +0200 (SAT) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 23:56:48 +0200 (SAT) From: Root Dude To: Robert Nordier cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bit 7 in filenames In-Reply-To: <199606091919.VAA00223@eac.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: >What I have in mind is a series of fixes to correct the most serious >problems: mostly those that actually result in corruption to the >DOS FS or ffs. I lost my entire var partition due to a particularly nasty bit of accessing a partition that had Disk Manager on it :-( >This is really intended just as a stop-gap measure, as the fundamental >design of the msdosfs is seriously broken in all sorts of ways. Now you tell me ;-) >Most of the code for the new msdosfs (now `vfatfs') is complete, Is it in -current already ? Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002