From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 25 19:57:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA05072 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05035 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA13247; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:51:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611260351.WAA13247@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Nate Williams cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Snob Art Genre , "K.J.Koster" , hackers@FreeBSD.org From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. References: <8484.848970215@time.cdrom.com> <199611260208.TAA02586@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:08:10 MST." <199611260208.TAA02586@rocky.mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:51:34 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I use it all the time, but I'm *very* careful not to run more than one > process on the FS, and I unmount the darn thing as soon as I read/write > the files to the FS. Yes, I use msdosfs quite a bit, but with the FS mounted read-only. It seems less likely to cause difficulties in that mode, and generally seems to be OK. > It works as long as I treat it like fragile china, and not having it > would be a real setback for me. Yeah, same here. It's certainly more convienient than the standalone dos file system tools for stuff I'm using it for. Perhaps it should "somehow" default to read-only usage? louie