From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 21 07:51:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA09150 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 07:51:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA09140 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 07:51:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA17897; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 07:50:52 -0800 (PST) To: Luoqi Chen cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdosfs win95 long file name support In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Dec 1997 01:58:40 EST." <199712210658.BAA11974@watermarkgroup.com> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 07:50:52 -0800 Message-ID: <17893.882719452@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I know someone (Robert Nordier?) has been working on a replacement for msdosf s. > But my patience ran out after more than one year of waiting, so I took up And I think Robert has said publically that if somebody ran out of patience and did this, he wouldn't mind at all. :-) He had good intentions but simply ran out of time and can probably be safely counted out at this point. > the matter myself. After about two weekends of work, I got a set of working > code. If anyone's interested, I have uploaded the diff to ftp://ftp.cdrom.com / > pub/FreeBSD/incoming/msdosfs-vfat.diff.gz. Since I have been working on a > 2.2-stable machine, the diff was taken against the 2.2.5 release. I haven't Cool! I don't have any VFAT partitions to test this with (I have a Windows-free household for the most part and the one emergency Windows partition I *do* have is a DOS FAT filesystem :-), so I hope that others will jump in on this one. Having it be relative to -current would also allow someone to commit it in the short term for more thorough testing. Any chance of getting ahold of a -current system somewhere locally there? Thanks! And a merry Christmas to you also. Jordan