From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 22 11:09:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20838 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (h196-7-192-155.iafrica.com [196.7.192.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20833; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA00225; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:08:13 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199607221808.UAA00225@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:08:11 +0200 (SAT) Cc: pst@shockwave.com, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15906.837972850@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 21, 96 11:14:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I think Robert Nordier is working on a complete re-write, actually. > How's that going, Robert? > > Jordan > The FAT fs primitives are done and tested and I'm currently working on VFAT support. Microsoft is shortly to be introducing a FAT32 filesystem to Windows 95 which will increase maximum filesystem size from 2 (or 4, for NT) gigabytes to 2 terabytes. The new filesystem makes use of 32-bit (as opposed to 12-bit and 16-bit) FAT entries and will require a fundamentally different handling of boot record, FATs, and root directory, so I'm busy on provision for this also. The changes required for FAT32 support would probably be rather difficult to graft onto the msdosfs at this stage: possibly another factor supporting the decision to re-implement DOS/Win filesystem support on FreeBSD. FAT32 is supposedly due for public release in the fall. I'm currently working towards a similar release date for the new filesystem. -- Robert Nordier