From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 15:23:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA27984 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 15:23:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101134.iafrica.com [196.7.101.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27960 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 15:23:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA00421; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 01:22:00 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601072322.BAA00421@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 01:21:58 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601072109.WAA00823@mordillo> from "Thomas Graichen" at Jan 7, 96 10:09:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk According to Thomas Graichen: > > hasn't Robert Nordier said ? ... > > > What is the current status of this part of the project, is more help > > needed, and what steps should one take to get involved? > > > i think there's somebody needed to take the msdosfs as his "child", > improves it and keeps it up to date (win95 long filenames - now in > NetBSD-current, maybe usability of compressed drives - linux has > something here and maybe - not directly related - hpfs and/or ntfs > support - here you may also find some stuff in the linux area) - but i > think the most important is a safe msdos fs (so that you can mount it > rw without the possibility of loosing data or full partitions - which > seems to be possible) and as i said somebody who really cares for the > msdos fs I could handle that. Thanks for the info.... -- Robert Nordier rnordier@iafrica.com E.A.C.