From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 9 12:55:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA13979 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101139.iafrica.com [196.7.101.139]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA13957 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00223; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 21:19:28 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199606091919.VAA00223@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: bit 7 in filenames To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 21:19:27 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606090636.IAA04585@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 9, 96 08:36:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > As Bruce Evans wrote: > > > falsely advertises that _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is 1 (no-trunc for > > _all_ supported file systems) and man pages misspell > > pathconf("/mountpoint", _PC_NAME_MAX) as 255. > > msdosfs can hardly count as a ``supported file system''. >:-) I raised this in -questions the other day, and this may be a good opportunity to get it into -hackers: As there has been some interest expressed in getting the msdosfs working (better) immediately, I'm going to be spending time over the next two weeks looking at this. What I have in mind is a series of fixes to correct the most serious problems: mostly those that actually result in corruption to the DOS FS or ffs. This is really intended just as a stop-gap measure, as the fundamental design of the msdosfs is seriously broken in all sorts of ways. Most of the code for the new msdosfs (now `vfatfs') is complete, but -- given the low level of general interest in/knowledge about the FAT/VFAT filesystem on FreeBSD -- there really doesn't seem much point in getting this into current until the very late stages of beta testing. All this is mostly FYI, but also to encourage anyone interested in the msdosfs quick fix to sign up and check it out. -- Robert Nordier