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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:01:26 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: merging win95 and nt filesystem changes into msdosfs 
Message-ID:  <199802102001.MAA02411@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:20:58 %2B0300." <199802101020.NAA02985@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> 

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> Mike Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > I should also point out that there is another diff, msdosfs-vfat.diff, in 
> > > incoming. This diff is for 2.2. It is original and independent work of 
> > > Luoqi Chen. It is not supposed to support FAT32. May be, now Luoqi did some 
> > > further development of his work.
> > 
> > I think that this is where things hit a logjam last time; there are two 
> > sets of incompatible patches to achieve two desirable things.  
> 
> *Two* desirable things? That is, VFAT for 2.2 and VFAT for -current? Or what 
> do you mean?

My understanding was that one set of patches provided long filename 
support, and the other gave fat32 support.  What we want is *both* of 
these.

If I am misremembering things, please accept my apologies.  Under no 
circumstances did I mean to imply that your work was unwanted.
-- 
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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