From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 15:36:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19633 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:36:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA19628 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA10523; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:32:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703242332.PAA10523@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, darrenr@cyber.com.au (Darren Reed) Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:32:37 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:49:16 +0100 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > > ftp://ftp.cyber.com.au/pub/unix/msdump.tgz > > Better name it `dosdump'? Remember, there's more DOSes than just M$. > Also, we do already have a mkdosfs(8), maybe somebody would even write > a dosfsck(8). (mkdosfs doesn't understand harddisks however. I'm not > the right person to ask for this, my DOS knowledge is too weak.) ..actually... I'd suggest a naming scheme that NetBSD is using: newfs_msdos fsck_msdos mount_msdos dump_msdos The name is, of course, the string used to identify the file system in the vfssw[]. Just a suggestion :-) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939