Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:00:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Jordan Klein <haplo@ibm.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_msdos -- is it safe yet? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970721165642.2699C-100000@dilbert.my.net> In-Reply-To: <33D36608.167EB0E7@tri-lakes.net>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Chris Dillon wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > > Has the support for DOS mounts in RELENG_2_2 progressed yet to the point > > where it would be safe to mount my 1.6 gig DOS/Win95 drive (one huge > > partition) without fear of corrupting my ufs? > > > > Sorry if this is an untimely question, but I haven't seen it come up in a > > while. > > I'm not sure if it is your UFS partitions that are in danger of being > corrupted, but rather the DOS partitions. I have mounted my DOS > partitions as read-only for quite some time now without any problems at > all. I have even on occasion remounted them as writable and thrown some > files on them. I think as read-only they are quite safe. The only time > there may be some problems, if there are still any problems to speak of, > is when they are writable. > I don't know about that. A while back, I mounted my win95 partition (1 gig) just to send a file over the internet to someone. Once that was done, my UFS partition was trashed, forcing me to reinstall FreeBSD. I don't remember the exact version of FreeBSD I was using at the time. I think it may have been 2.1-Stable, or 3.0-Current. Since then, I have been VERY gunshy mounting dos partitions. I have mounted my dos partition several times with 2.2-Stable, and have yet to receive any problems, though. --- Jordan Klein Playing with FreeBSD and loving it jklein @ theramp . net haplo @ ibm . net http://www.theramp.net/jklein http://www.ibm.net Spam me and die Remove spaces from email addr to reply
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