From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 10:10:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28061 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (AUCHENTOSHAN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28051 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:10:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu id aa17004; 25 Mar 97 13:09 EST To: Darren Reed cc: hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org From: "Chris G. Demetriou" Subject: Re: Dilemma. how to store DOS directories ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:41:37 +1100." <199703251341.AAA04900@plum.cyber.com.au> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:09:34 -0500 Message-ID: <19193.859313374@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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