From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 6 16:06:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA10729 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hps.sso.wdl.lmco.com (hps.sso.wdl.lmco.com [158.186.22.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10714 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miles.sso.wdl.lmco.com by hps.sso.wdl.lmco.com (4.1/SSO-4.01-LMCO) id AA08574; Tue, 6 Aug 96 18:51:24 EDT Received: by miles.sso.wdl.lmco.com (4.1/SSO-SUN-2.04) id AA08033; Tue, 6 Aug 96 19:04:10 EDT Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 19:04:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren X-Sender: rpt@miles To: hackers Subject: SAMBA and DOS file systems Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk SAMBA seems to have really picked up as a topic these last couple of weeks. My question concerns the file systems that SAMBA uses to support the remote requests. This machine is used for both FBSD and WFWG 3.11. I am planning to use SAMBA as a file server for the WFWG files stored in the DOS partitions, and used on another WFWG machine. I have been following (over the last year) the saga of the fitness of using the DOS FS. Some people seem to have a disaster, and others say it works just fine. In my case I have 3 DOS partitions (1 primary and 2 extended) of 250 Mb each. Is SAMBA safe with DOS partitions? Should the FreeBSD partitions be the only ones used? Any experiences are guidelines would be appreciated.... ==================================================== Rip Toren | The bad news is that C++ is not an object-oriented | rpt@sso.wdl.lmco.com | programming language. .... The good news is that | | C++ supports object-oriented programming. | | C++ Programming & Fundamental Concepts | | by Anderson & Heinze | ====================================================