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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Msdos FS 
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Pete Carah wrote in message ID
<4k8sg3$qoq@pelican.altadena.net>:
> Well, considering that some of the medium-density floppy formats had
> this property, and that DOS doesn't use the cluster write subroutines
> for writes to the root directory (so it doesn't care...), we shut
> ourselves out of lots of probable disk configurations with this 
> restriction...

Which is exactly why someone is hacking on our DOSFS code to make it
better/more robust...

Gary