From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 20 15:52:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00403 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00362 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:52:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA21935; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:51:43 -0800 (PST) To: Brian Handy cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@watermarkgroup.com Subject: Re: msdosfs-vfat support In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:52:20 PST." Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:51:42 -0800 Message-ID: <21931.888018702@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How crazy would it be to add this (or the other msdosfs diff someone came > up with) to -STABLE for the impending release? It may be experimental, > but our msdosfs has always been sort of...well...experimental anyway. :-) Well, considering how viciously broken our MSDOSFS is I certainly wouldn't mind something better entering -stable, though it would still have to be provably better of course. Another plus would be that I could take the stand-alone DOS code out of sysinstall and just use the kernel version; it's a lot more bloated than the stand-alone version but we'd at least be able to install from VFAT/FAT32 partitions then. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message