From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 04:30:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA05661 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 04:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA05651 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 04:30:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA20073; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:13:08 +1100 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:13:08 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199601091213.XAA20073@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, rnordier@iafrica.com Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, root@synthcom.com Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >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 You will also have an opportunity to learn more about FreeBSD-NetBSD politics :-). msdosfs was imported from NetBSD on 1994/09/19. It is more actively maintained in NetBSD, and a year of drift has resulted in differences larger than the original files (msdosfs is currently 187K and diff -c between it and NetBSD's 1995/09/12 version are 254K). No doubt there is a fix or two buried in the diffs. Bruce