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Date:      Mon, 6 May 1996 20:33:58 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, rnordier@iafrica.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dosfsck anyone?
Message-ID:  <199605070333.UAA22712@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605070223.EAA01170@eac.iafrica.com> from "Robert Nordier" at May 7, 96 04:23:11 am

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> > How will these anomolies be introduced?  By (in violation of usage
> > semantics) caching?

[ ... ]

> By "the chance of introducing ... anomalies" I really just meant that,
> whereas FAT implies a nice convenient discrete set of 32-byte
> directories entries, VFAT (assuming "cluster crossing" is legal) means
> 'dosfsck' can't go blindly chopping up and relinking (to 'LOST.FND')
> questionable clusters, if the chop in question is going to sever the LFN,
> or the LFN to 8.3-name connection.  (However, I'm probably
> misinterpreting the question, as I can't tie in "caching" - however
> loosely - with any of this.)

I assumed that the problems being corrected would come from the BSD
MSDOSFS crashing with cache data in core instead of on disk, etc..


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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