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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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