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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 1996 21:12:16 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Incompatibility between FIPS and MSDOSFS 
Message-ID:  <510.841378336@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:54:16 %2B0900." <199608292354.IAA04674@leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> 

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> (to write this article), and I found that FIPS'ed DOS partition is
> incompatible with MSDOSFS, so,

Yep!  Known bug, I'm afraid.

> o files in FIPS'ed DOS partition sometimes failes even on read-only
>   operation.

Yes.

> o directories in FIPS'ed DOS partition sometimes shows broken filename
>   to the system.

Yes.

> o FIPS'ed partition can't be used as an installation medium of
>   DOS-partition installation

Yes.

You also left out:

> o Trying to actually use the DOS partition read/write often results in
>   total corruption of both DOS and UFS partitions.

:-(

> Are these problems fixed on 2.2-SNAP or -current?

Nope, not yet.  Robert Nordier has been working on something for
awhile, but I don't know the current status of it.

					Jordan



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