From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 10 06:18:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03209 for current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 06:18:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03101 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 06:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21167; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:13:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199802101413.PAA21167@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: merging win95 and nt filesystem changes into msdosfs In-Reply-To: <26929.887078004@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 9, 98 06:33:24 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:13:42 +0100 (CET) Cc: jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > > i have also noticed a lack of response on any questions to this group > > dealing with this issue. i have previously asked about such support > > and received absolutely no answers in the [recent] past. > > There's no one who currently "owns" MSDOSFS, that's why, and no one to > do the work of integrating changes from NetBSD or any other OS. Any > volunteers? I'm a little confused by all this. Wasn't someone working on a complete rewrite of the msdosfs? One that would be safe to use without making double backups of your system first, and support VFAT? Did that work go in (under my nose), and that's what you want to fix? Or are we trying to add more potential problems to a should-be-killed-off piece of code? :-) /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message