From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 25 14:07:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11936 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (pop-90-116.Olivetti.za [160.124.90.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11931 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA01021; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:01:30 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199704252101.XAA01021@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: VFAT 32 support in msdosfs In-Reply-To: from Joachim Kuebart at "Apr 25, 97 04:55:21 pm" To: joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:01:28 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joachim Kuebart wrote: > Hi! > > Is there VFAT32 support in the current msdosfs? If not,m I'd be ready to try > and do it.. > Note: From what I've heared, Windows95 that supports VFAT isn't even shipped > any more. So this will probably be dying out soon.. :-) I've been working on replacement for the msdosfs, which incorporates VFAT (12- and 16-bit), but not VFAT32, support. I'm hoping this will be released RSN (at least within the next few months). No-one is working on VFAT32 support, AFAIK. I spent a while considering it, before deciding against supporting it. It is really a different filesystem, and not (like VFAT) upward compatible with DOS. If you want to pursue this, you may want to wait for the VFAT code. Alternatively, I'd be happy to swap notes on technical details. -- Robert Nordier