From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 22 15:42:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA29824 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101157.iafrica.com [196.7.101.157]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29807 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:42:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA00777; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 01:38:19 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199602222338.BAA00777@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: msdos brokennes and related subjects To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 01:38:17 +0200 (SAT) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602221457.PAA21276@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Feb 22, 96 03:57:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I am trying to work on the MSDOS partition on 2.1R. I have tried with > both mtools and the msdosfs. > > MTOOLS: > ------- > mtools does not support C: anymore (it used to in 1.1.5). I patched my > 2.1R port of mtools with 1.1.5 patches, and it seems to work perfectly > (it does not use any system call, just reads the partition table). > > If there is interest, I'd like to submit a patch to allow the support > of non-removable media. > > > MSDOSFS: > -------- > As it has been said many times, msdosfs is known to be broken there, > and I have never been so brave to try this on my own machine... > . . . . . > Is it possible that the MSDOSFS tries to access/modify the partition table, > even though it is not anymore part of the DOS slice ? I'm a fair way through revisions of the msdosfs and have tracked most of an initial lot of problems, including at least one where it just gets plain confused (which relates to LSN translation). As I'm also still finishing off a dosfsck utility, which is needed for testing some of the new code, your patch seems like a good idea for those who are currently waiting for msdosfs revisions before they can access their DOS partitions. -- Robert Nordier