Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 16:10:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: tb@MO.NET (Timothy Brown) Cc: scott@statsci.com, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystems corrupted - what's up with this? Message-ID: <199512072310.QAA07392@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951207170158.21055B-100000@Walden.MO.NET> from "Timothy Brown" at Dec 7, 95 05:04:28 pm
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> Yeah, I noticed this too. Terry provided a suitable answer. The problem > is, now my DOS FS is _completely_ unusable! > > With all due respect, developers, this truly sucks. Who developed this > code? Why hasn't it been updated? Linux does this just fine. FreeBSD > is a great O/S, don't get me wrong, but it needs some more help along the > line to get to be a real production O/S. I guess i'm just going to have > to stick with the much slower Slackware Linux setup I have for now ... if > I can get my system running. > > If there CAN'T be an update/fix of msdosfs, then is it possible that it > be disabled before the next release comes out - maybe 2.1.1 (2.1.5?) or > what have you? There is very little about this in either the handbook or > the FAQ and newbies to FreeBSD (like myself) may start really hating it > after awhile. A rewrite of MSDOSFS is one of the things on my TODO list. I am not working on it currently -- I have other fish to fry in the FS code right now, and other time commitments beyond that. Unfortunately, it's not going to really be a priority for me for another $250, which is what I need to install Win95 at home again so that I can beat on a live DOS FS with the interesting Win95 pieces in it. Basically, I'm going to have to buy another drive to beat on. My beater drive is currently running BSD on an Alpha loaner box I got a while back to get a port up and running. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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