Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:46:30 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: root@synthcom.com Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes Message-ID: <199601071046.LAA07666@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601070530.QAA24887@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 7, 96 04:30:00 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >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. There are several reports that enabling DOS f/s read/write can damage other file systems. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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