From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 21 11:37:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01919 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA01906 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.3.81.149] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ka233178 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:37:21 -0500 Message-ID: <33D36608.167EB0E7@tri-lakes.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:37:12 +0000 From: Chris Dillon X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Conrad Sabatier CC: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_msdos -- is it safe yet? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.