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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:05:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, Ye Xiaomin <xiaominy@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mount...When FAT 32 will be available?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419000329.6766N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3537E7EF.41C67EA6@whistle.com>

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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> > I was able to locate the patches from NetBSD that add fat32 support.
> > WARNING:  These are UNTESTED and MAY NOT APPLY CLEANLY.  USE AT YOUR OWN
> > RISK. I can't support these, so you're on your own.
> > 
> > They are at:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/msdosfs-netbsd.diff.gz
> 
> fat32 have been integrated long ago I thought..
> on my PC at least I can see all the long filenames etc.
> or is that something different?

Long filenames (ie VFAT) and FAT32 are two different characters.  

Looking at the commit logs, only -CURRENT has been fixed, so it should
support FAT32.  2.2.x doesn't.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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