From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 06:43:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA15733 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from snail.slow.net (root@snail.slow.net [204.50.80.175]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA15706 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lancelot@localhost) by snail.slow.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) id JAA22328; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:42:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:42:35 -0500 (EST) From: Sire Lancelot du Lac To: Wilko Bulte cc: FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? In-Reply-To: <199701132233.XAA03055@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Files starting with a dot are drivers for MacOS, .sony is the disk driver, .aout and .bout are the serial ports drivers, etc... Christian Doucet lancelot@slow.net work: +1 514 728 1618 Freelance "Sysadmin-Programmer-UNIX-Internet" guru! home: +1 514 728 1618 Y'a rien de plus troublant qu'un trou noir. -- Sol (Marc Favreau) This sentance has threee errors. -- trurl@yakko.nceye.net This sentence no verb. -- someone The answer to life, the universe and sendmail is 25 -- chimmy@knott12.ncl.ac.uk On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >