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Date:      Sun, 7 Jan 1996 16:30:00 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, root@synthcom.com
Subject:   Re: DOS File system fixes
Message-ID:  <199601070530.QAA24887@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>What is currently broken in the DOS file system for FreeBSD? I see there's an

Deadlocks are possible for file lookup (locking is too strong/wrong).
Locking in some other places is too weak.  rename() sometimes
(deterministically) updates the wrong directory entries.  I/O is
extremely inefficient, especially if the cluster size is small.

Bruce



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