From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 10 11:33:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27747 for current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-31-98-138.iafrica.com [196.31.98.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27503 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@iafrica.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA19576; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:29:07 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199802101929.VAA19576@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: merging win95 and nt filesystem changes into msdosfs In-Reply-To: <3512.887124180@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 10, 98 07:23:00 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:29:00 +0200 (SAT) Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (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 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