From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 10:15:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA05650 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05641 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA14793; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:17:59 -0700 Message-Id: <199605151717.KAA14793@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Robert Nordier cc: hans@flash.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Please help. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 May 1996 14:12:40 +0200." <199605151212.OAA00401@eac.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:17:59 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > There are problems with the MSDOSFS that can cause corruption if FIPS has > > resized them (particularly, if the sector size changes). > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > The sector size can't change. What can - and should - change is the DOS > cluster (allocation unit) size. > > The problem is more what FIPS _doesn't_ change, than what it does. You knew what I meant. :-) Sorry for the braino and thanks for the correction. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major