Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:23:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-current@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: Is MSDOS FS OK? Message-ID: <199807141023.MAA09803@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
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> Does anyone have any reports of MSDOSFS stomping on drives? (I am interested i n > the current version, as of today). > I realise there is no guarantee, but I'd like an idea of its danger before I > have a real fiddle with it :) > The partitions I want to use it on are a 499Mb FAT16 partition, and a 2.6Gb > FAT32 partition. > (I have tried it read only and it seems fine..) Yes, I have problems (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #7: Wed May 27 09:58:35 CEST 1998). Line from /etc/fstab: /dev/wd2s1 /dos_d msdos rw 0 0 Line from "ls -l /": drwx------ 1 cejkar wheel 16384 Pro 31 1979 dos_d Example: su cd /dos_d echo A > xxx cp xxx xxx.new mv xxx.new xxx.bad ls -l ... -rwx------ 1 cejkar wheel 2 Čvc 14 12:10 xxx -rwx------ 1 cejkar wheel 2 Čvc 14 12:10 xxx.bad ... # Ok - it is good still rm xxx xxx.bad echo A > xxx cp xxx xxx.new ls -l ... -rwx------ 1 cejkar wheel 2 Čvc 14 12:14 XXX.BAD -rwx------ 1 cejkar wheel 2 Čvc 14 12:14 xxx ... # Hmm, there _should_ be "xxx" and "xxx.new", am I right? Is this example sufficient? Is this widely repeatible? (I have installed Win95 & FreeBSD-CURRENT in my box.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rudolf Cejka (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz; http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar) Technical University of Brno, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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