Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:35:59 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: root@chain.iafrica.com (Root Dude) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bit 7 in filenames Message-ID: <199606102136.XAA00753@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960609235331.573C-100000@chain.iafrica.com> from "Root Dude" at Jun 9, 96 11:56:48 pm
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Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: > > >What I have in mind is a series of fixes to correct the most serious > >problems: mostly those that actually result in corruption to the > >DOS FS or ffs. > > I lost my entire var partition due to a particularly nasty bit > of accessing a partition that had Disk Manager on it :-( > > >This is really intended just as a stop-gap measure, as the fundamental > >design of the msdosfs is seriously broken in all sorts of ways. > > Now you tell me ;-) > > >Most of the code for the new msdosfs (now `vfatfs') is complete, > > Is it in -current already ? No, the vfatfs is probably about 80 percent complete, but still in pieces, and not expected in -current for a while. As the msdosfs code has changed comparatively little, the msdosfs fixes will probably apply to most recent versions of FreeBSD. These patches should be out in a few weeks and will address the problem of corrupting BSD partitions. -- Robert Nordier
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