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Date:      Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:45:28 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        rnordier@iafrica.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newmsdosfs anyone ?
Message-ID:  <199803201945.VAA03642@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803201710.SAA05191@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Mar 20, 98 06:10:37 pm"

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> > The latest mtools works pretty well for large disks.
> 
> 3.8 or later ?

I used a 3.9 pre-release to test standalone FAT32 support I was doing
for sysinstall.  Mtools did work correctly for FAT32 partitions > 0xffff
clusters, but I didn't really look at the whole package.

[ ... ] 
> I have patches (for mtools 3.0) to support HDs (but only up to 512MB)
> and make them bootable in DOS or Windows95 (you need a DOS/Win
> licence, and you need to grab the init files and boot sector and put
> them into /usr/local/lib/mtools...
> 
> Would you be interested to integrate that as well ?

If you're likely to use it, I guess it should be added.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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