Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:51:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, titan@stuttgart.netsurf.de Subject: Re: VFAT16 or VFAT32 support in msdosfs? Message-ID: <199706022151.OAA15437@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970602215746.joki@jocki.domestic.de> from "Joachim Kuebart" at Jun 2, 97 09:34:58 pm
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> I asked a while ago, but I can't find the mail from the guy who's working on > it... The guy's name is Robert Nordier. > Is there support for long file names in a FAT file system in FreeBSD-current > yet? VFAT? Not "in FreeBSD-current" as far as I know. He has distributed beta code, and it might have been integrated (I haven't seen it, but I haven't been looking very hard). > If so, would it be possible (for the adventurous) to include that support in > 2.2.2-release as well, say, by copying msdosfs.c? If it's there, you could pound on it, I suppose. There *are* differences before and after the Lite2 merge that could make for some problems. It's mostly VOP_LOCK and ADVLOCK stuff. > And does that code also support FAT32 already? (i.e., >65535 clusters) Not as far as I know. The disk layout for the VFAT32 is different; if you are an MSDN developer at level II or better, there is full documentation of the differences on the OEMSR2 beta release (which is the only release which shipped with a VFAT->FAT32 conversion utility, AFAIK, though Partition Magic is rumored to handle it now). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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