From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 14:59:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA01202 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:59:17 -0700 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA01190 ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:59:08 -0700 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0t3Ve1-000r3xC; Thu, 12 Oct 95 14:58 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: "Dima (ELO)" , questions@freebsd.org, support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:17:04 -0700." <199510122117.OAA03809@aslan.cdrom.com> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:58:26 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > Our msdosfs is broken for filesystems > ~500MB in my experience. Its > just another thing that needs to be fixed in msdosfs. And in my experience (read: one system), it is broken, period. Are you talking of _disks_ > ~500Mb or _filesystems_? When I messed with msdosfs on my system (a 1Gb IDE disk & a 1.4Gb SCSI disk on a 2.0.5R installed from CD) I ended up getting corrupted BSD partitions for my trouble - even when I only mounted the msdos slices read-only. And I don't have any slices or filesystems that are that big. The system works great now that I don't get anywhere near the msdos slices. I CAN just use the mtools package to get at my msdos disks anyways - not as convenient, but it does seem to work. I would LOVE to hear that things have been fixed up in later releases...I might even try it once I get good backups and a recovery plan thought out... Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org