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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:47:58 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MSDOSfs long filename support....
Message-ID:  <199510121747.KAA15467@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510121136.EAA01458@freefall.freebsd.org> from "sos@FreeBSD.ORG" at Oct 12, 95 04:36:41 am

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> While fumbling along with WIN95 (yuck) here at work it hit me that
> WIN95 is able to put long filenames onto a MSDOS FAT filesystem.
> 
> They way they do it is easy, and I'm thinking of putting support
> into our msdos filesystem driver.
> 
> Would this bring us closer to running of a msdos filesystem ??
> (modulo unstabilities in the msdosfs support).
> It should be possible to load the files under dos with a
> special utility (or WIN95) and then run FreeBSD off of that
> directory right??

I've thought about this too.

The MSDOSFS is currently an unhappy camper; there are still the UFS
superblock corruption issues and the move/rename crashes to fixup before
it can be safely used.

The umsdos FS (Linux) also supports device nodes.  The remedy under BSD
using the Win95 long name support should probably be devfs.  This implies
that the backing store requirement for devfs must go away.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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