From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 13:58:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10829 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10823 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16543(15)>; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:48:17 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29247; Tue, 9 Jan 96 16:47:56 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07945; Tue, 9 Jan 96 16:47:55 EST Message-Id: <9601092147.AA07945@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Terry Lambert Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier), root@synthcom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 10:32:53 PST." <199601091832.LAA12472@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:47:53 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > It would be heinous to support something like DBLSPACE. ;-) > > > > Hmmm.... :-) > > > > Actually, though, I feel that if we can't support the msdosfs _as_it_is_ > > used_, then we aren't living up to "FreeBSD is better" and the msdosfs > > support is more something to look good on the features list than an > > actual benefit. I know one of the big gripes about one of the OS/2 WARP > > releases was that it didn't want to have anything to do with compressed > > drives. DBLSPACE should be in there somewhere (though admittedly not a top > > priority). > > DoubleSpace is Evil. So is DriveSpace and DriveSpace 3. > Funny you feel that way ;-) I totally agree... Jerry Pournelle had a column in byte last month (while he didn't say it was evil, he said it wasn't a good idea...) gzip -r . works fine for me ;-) -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom