Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:08:10 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>, "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <199611260208.TAA02586@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <8484.848970215@time.cdrom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961125131249.16405B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> <8484.848970215@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Msdosfs is seriously broken. It has twice damaged my filesystem to the > > extent that I had to reinstall FreeBSD. Don't use it. > > We should probably just remove it entirely for now. I have some > stand-alone dosfs reading code which Robert Nordier gave me and I > intend to use for sysinstall, so that's that case covered. Otherwise, > as you've already found out, you take your life in your hands with > msdosfs. I use it all the time, but I'm *very* careful not to run more than one process on the FS, and I unmount the darn thing as soon as I read/write the files to the FS. It works as long as I treat it like fragile china, and not having it would be a real setback for me. Nate
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