Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:29:00 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merging win95 and nt filesystem changes into msdosfs Message-ID: <199802101929.VAA19576@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <3512.887124180@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 10, 98 07:23:00 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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 > > Robert Nordier. He was called away. :-) Actually, I'm back. :-) (Having just come off two projects that together have taken most of the days/nights for the last eighteen months.) Adding Windows support to the existing msdosfs is a reasonable move that I've always been in favor of someone doing. And if/when I get my own code finished, there's probably no reason why there shouldn't be more than one dosfs available (as with pppd and iijppp). My own immediate plans, though, in the next couple of weeks, are to release a dosfs-checking tool `ckfatfs', which will probably be useful, given the work on msdosfs. The checking by ckfatfs is comprehensive and extremely rigorous. Conceptually, it's more like an FS lint, and less like the fsck-style "fixing" programs (which actually do fairly limited overall checking). This should probably serve as a useful confidence/diagnostic tool in conjunction with revisions to the msdosfs. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message
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