Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:02:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merging win95 and nt filesystem changes into msdosfs Message-ID: <199802100902.CAA23314@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <26929.887078004@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 9, 98 06:33:24 pm
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> > i have also noticed a lack of response on any questions to this group > > dealing with this issue. i have previously asked about such support > > and received absolutely no answers in the [recent] past. > > There's no one who currently "owns" MSDOSFS, that's why, and no one to > do the work of integrating changes from NetBSD or any other OS. Any > volunteers? If the FS framework were logically layered to eliminate upcalls and make all VOP's reflexive, I would be willing to take on this task. Without these prerequisites, it's practically impossible to support the necessary namespace changes for the Unicode namespace and the dual namespace for VFAT (the Windows95 collision avoidance algorithm depends on non-late-binding of short names for a given long name, as both the SAMBA maintainers and the MSDOSFS people who attempted the integration before have discovered). The same goes for Apple HFS (which has a second ProDOS namespace), OS/2 HPFS (which has a second longname namespace), and NTFS (which has multiple auxillary namespaces for both POSIX and MSDOS emulation support). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message
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