Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 09:16:48 -0700 From: "Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf@z-code.ncd.com> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? Message-ID: <9605070916.ZM13557@zask.z-code.com> In-Reply-To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> "Re: dosfsck anyone?" (May 6, 20:12) References: <199605070012.UAA17615@exalt.x.org>
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On May 6, 20:12, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? > > > > main stumbling block, though, is that clusters (other than the > > > first directory cluster) will be missing '.' and '..' entries. > > > 2) "." and ".." are artifacts of the search interface, not > > artifacts of directory structure contents in a FAT/VFAT/VFAT32 > > file system. > > > > ??? What does that mean, they're "artifacts of the search interface..." > > It's been years since I used MS-DOS enough to care about poking around > in the file system with Norton Utilities, but as I recall "." and ".." > are just like any other directory entry in a directory. > > -- > > Kaleb KEITHLEY >-- End of excerpt from Kaleb S. KEITHLEY . and .. are offical needed, it is used by MS-Dos to load quicker the actual directory (. points to the first cluster of the diretory) or to go one directory up again (.. points to the first cluster of the mother directory or to 0 for roo directory) Ulf. --
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