Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 01:37:19 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Msdos FS Message-ID: <6307.828923839@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "07 Apr 1996 10:02:59 PDT." <4k8sg3$qoq@pelican.altadena.net>
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Pete Carah wrote in message ID <4k8sg3$qoq@pelican.altadena.net>: > Well, considering that some of the medium-density floppy formats had > this property, and that DOS doesn't use the cluster write subroutines > for writes to the root directory (so it doesn't care...), we shut > ourselves out of lots of probable disk configurations with this > restriction... Which is exactly why someone is hacking on our DOSFS code to make it better/more robust... Gary
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