From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 03:55:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA07231 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 03:55:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101158.iafrica.com [196.7.101.158]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA07191 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 03:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00250 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 13:52:45 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601071152.NAA00250@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 13:52:41 +0200 (SAT) 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 Sun, 07 Jan 96, Neil Bradley wrote: > What is currently broken in the DOS file system for FreeBSD? I see > there's an "Urgent need" for help, and I've got plenty of DOS file > system experience, but not too much Unix experience. If the problems > aren't specific to the Unix side, I just might be able to help out. On Sun, 07 Jan 96, Bruce Evans replied: > Deadlocks are possible for file lookup (locking is too strong/wrong). > Locking in some other places is too weak. rename() sometimes > (deterministically) updates the wrong directory entries. I/O is > extremely inefficient, especially if the cluster size is small. I've a bit over seven years professional development experience in MS-DOS internals (device drivers, TSRs, interrupt handlers, etc.) in 80x86 assembler and C. What is the current status of this part of the project, is more help needed, and what steps should one take to get involved? -- Robert Nordier rnordier@iafrica.com E.A.C.