Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:11:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Brant M. Katkansky" <bmk@fta.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ben@narcissus.ml.org, kjk1@ukc.ac.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <199611260511.VAA01010@everest.dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <199611260208.TAA02586@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 25, 96 07:08:10 pm"
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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. "Me too." I treat mine more or less the same as Nate, and I have never had a problem. I would hate to see it go away, but I think it'd be reasonable to warn novice users in the documentation (or do we already?).
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