From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 9 13:17:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24788 for current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:17:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unix.tfs.net (as1-p6.tfs.net [139.146.210.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24775 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:17:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbryant@unix.tfs.net) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by unix.tfs.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA03613 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:17:09 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199802092117.PAA03613@unix.tfs.net> Subject: merging win95 and nt filesystem changes into msdosfs To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:17:08 -0600 (CST) Reply-to: jbryant@unix.tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jan 1 19:03:58 CST 1998 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i've been looking at the netbsd diffs for msdosfs. are these going to be merged into the -current distribution? the current diffs don't apply to current, and are getting out of sync. i am tempted to go in and merge this by hand, but really don't want to duplicate someone's effort. shouldn't this merge become part of -current in order to keep in sync?! this is something that i personally find lacking in freebsd is the lack of ability to handle fat32 and long filenames on a msdog partition. i have also noticed a lack of response on any questions to this group dealing with this issue. i have previously asked about such support and received absolutely no answers in the [recent] past. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message