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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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