From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 10:21:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26185 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper119235.iafrica.com [196.7.119.235]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26176 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA00176; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:08:29 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601091308.PAA00176@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:08:27 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, root@synthcom.com In-Reply-To: <199601091213.XAA20073@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 9, 96 11:13:08 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 Tue, 9 Jan 96, Bruce Evans wrote: > > >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).... *Gulp!* > No doubt there is a fix or two buried in the diffs. I was interested to get (from one of your other postings) that not all the accusations against the msdosfs are necessarily substantiated. Which will be useful to keep in mind when looking at the code. Thanks Robert -- Robert Nordier rnordier@iafrica.com E.A.C.