From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 5 18:12:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13015 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12963 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:12:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA08540; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:42:01 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199804060112.KAA08540@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Niklas Saers , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOSFS In-reply-to: Your message of "05 Apr 1998 18:20:00 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 10:42:01 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > unavaible as the floppy. Why does the entire filesystem go down with one > > minor problem such as the floppy? And how can I avoid this. (except from > > using bad floppies, that is :) ) > Don't mount floppies, use mtools instead. Hmm.. I don't think thats really an nice solution.. The whole point of the FS is that it abstracts file access so that you don't need different programs to access different types of drive. (ie I don't need tar which works with MFS, FFS, and NFS, because the FS abstracts access to files..) Perhaps MSDOSFS needs the 'soft' option a la NFS =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |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-stable" in the body of the message