From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 00:32:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA21543 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 00:32:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101130.iafrica.com [196.7.101.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21524 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 00:32:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA01094; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:17:42 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601090717.JAA01094@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:17:38 +0200 (SAT) Cc: root@synthcom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20926.821058991@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 7, 96 03:56:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Jan 96, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I could handle that. > > Really? Seriously, the poor state of msdosfs has been a real thorn in > our side for quite some time - the mutant cousin we keep locked in the > basement and are too embarassed to talk about.. :-) Nice image! :-) > It would be really really great if someone were to roll up their > sleaves and wade in there, fixing and reimplimenting as necessary. > You may also end up learning more about the FreeBSD VM system than you > wanted to in the process, but there's no harm in that! :-) The opportunity to learn more about FreeBSD VM and other internals at a deeper level is the main reason I'm particularly interested, so I'd certainly like to sign up for this. However, I see that Neil Bradley is also keen, and he should probably get first shot at it, since he applied first. Otherwise, I've got about five weeks from 1 Feb mostly free when I could make a start on it. -- Robert rnordier@iafrica.com