From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 10:26:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B442516A41B; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:26:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3593D13C480; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:26:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-48-57.lns11.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.48.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6NAQScY041883 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:56:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:56:09 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707230710.l6N7AHd8008351@repoman.freebsd.org> <46A47C62.10507@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <46A47C62.10507@incunabulum.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart32923567.baHMEqLoTh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707231956.17778.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, "Bruce M. Simpson" , src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/msdosfs msdosfs_vfsops.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:26:40 -0000 --nextPart32923567.baHMEqLoTh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > Make using msdosfs as the root file system sort of work: > > In case anyone is wondering 'Why the hell would anyone wish to do > this?' consider the case of various embedded systems and small > devices where the medium is pre-formatted as MS-DOS. or where the > format on the medium is tied to MS-DOS for other reasons. And it'll > also let you boot FreeBSD from your digital camera if your hard disk > fails. Also good for USB flash disks since paritioning them in a way that keeps=20 Windows happy AND allows you to boot FreeBSD is.. non-obvious. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart32923567.baHMEqLoTh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGpIJJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAs14AJ4lOgyw6raNUfV7ixJzwndVU5PpNgCdFqd0 lnRxn3QDyYpvxJdBAhFwh4U= =ePDu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart32923567.baHMEqLoTh--