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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:43:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      kfurge@worldnet.att.net
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is MSDOS FS OK?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701193615.993A-100000@kcfhome.my.domain>
In-Reply-To: <199807011407.XAA20534@cain.gsoft.com.au>

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I tried the MSDOS code from about 2.5 months ago and had mixed success.  I
was talking to a SCSI zip disk through a ncr810 based controller card and
things were fine as long as I stayed in the root directory.  I could add,
delete and copy to my hearts content.  But as soon as I tried to
manipulate files in a subdirectory, it slowly began to self destruct and
then roasted the filesystem.  This was on a standard fat16 fs on the zip
disk.  I don't know if this was a zip specific artifact or not.  When I
put a unix fs on it, it worked flawlessly.

- K.C.


On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> Does anyone have any reports of MSDOSFS stomping on drives? (I am interested in
> the current version, as of today).
> I realise there is no guarantee, but I'd like an idea of its danger before I 
> have a real fiddle with it :)
> The partitions I want to use it on are a 499Mb FAT16 partition, and a 2.6Gb
> FAT32 partition.
> (I have tried it read only and it seems fine..)
> 
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> |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software |
> |http://www.gsoft.com.au                                            |
> |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to|
> |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum                                   |
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