From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 1 18:08:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01247 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01106 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kfurge@worldnet.att.net) From: kfurge@worldnet.att.net Received: from phaser.indy.net ([12.66.3.236]) by mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.03 118 118 102) with ESMTP id <19980702010646.QLNH23521@phaser.indy.net>; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 01:06:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (kfurge@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phaser.indy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01059; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:43:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:43:41 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: kfurge@kcfhome.my.domain To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is MSDOS FS OK? In-Reply-To: <199807011407.XAA20534@cain.gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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..) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > |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 | > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message