From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 15:05:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18218 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:05:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA18138 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:03:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA16584 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:02:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06858; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:09:46 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970325220946.WM44861@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:09:46 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. References: <199703242324.QAA23896@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199703251233.OAA18965@eac.iafrica.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703251233.OAA18965@eac.iafrica.com>; from Robert Nordier on Mar 25, 1997 14:33:08 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Nordier wrote: > That a fsck-like utility for FAT/VFAT is relatively trivial, feasible, > or even desirable, is a dangerous illusion. :-) Excellent explanation! Boy, am i happy that the times i've been using FAT filesystems are now five years ago... (I always thought that it was very stupid of M$ to continue using FAT- style filesystem on Winlose, now that they've got {HP,NT}FS. Now i know of one more reason for _why_ it is stupid. :-) -- 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. ;-)