Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:09:34 -0500 From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@cs.cmu.edu> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Dilemma. how to store DOS directories ? Message-ID: <19193.859313374@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:41:37 %2B1100." <199703251341.AAA04900@plum.cyber.com.au>
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> I feel a restore_msdos is necessary but what do others think ? (That > is remember there could be non-FAT16 information to restore, long file > names, etc (which NetBSD is meant to support but I haven't yet checked that > out). > I'd agree, but because 'dump' and 'restore' were meant to be FFS-specific, and have in the past been arbitrarily changed to match FFS formats. Given that the various FAT formats aren't really related, it seems like a bad idea to try to wedge them into normal 'restore' (or 'dump,' for that matter). chris
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