Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 23:33:58 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers list) Subject: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? Message-ID: <199701132233.XAA03055@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Howdy! While moving a magneto optical disk between a FreeBSD box and a Mac I noticed something peculiar. The MO contains a MSDOS filesystem (created by a real DOS machine). FreeBSD had no problems mounting it and copying a lot of files to it. The files came from a normal UFS filesystem. To be precise, the files where quite a lot of scanned images, who had been processed by xv. Xv had run it's "visual schnauzer" and created (on the original UFS filesystem) the .xvpics/ thumbnail directories. I subsequently copied the whole tree to the MO that was mounted on the FreeBSD box (using msdosfs). No problem here. Moved the whole thing to the Mac and mounted the MO using AccessPC. Result: dirs were visible, files only in a few directories. Hmm, lot of head scratching. The end result was that I discovered that there were _on the MSDOS_ filesystem directories called .xvp (note the leading .) Removing these made the Mac see all the files like it should. Question: are files/dirs with leading . valid DOS names? I'm really suspicious about 'm (all of this was 2.1.5R BTW) Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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