From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 14:59:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA29958 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from Walden.MO.NET (tb@walden.mo.net [199.250.196.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA29935 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tb@localhost) by Walden.MO.NET (8.6.12/8.6.10) id RAA21417; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:04:29 -0600 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:04:28 -0600 (CST) From: Timothy Brown To: Scott Blachowicz cc: Terry Lambert , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystems corrupted - what's up with this? In-Reply-To: <199512072242.OAA07046@block.statsci.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Yeah, I noticed this too. Terry provided a suitable answer. The problem is, now my DOS FS is _completely_ unusable! With all due respect, developers, this truly sucks. Who developed this code? Why hasn't it been updated? Linux does this just fine. FreeBSD is a great O/S, don't get me wrong, but it needs some more help along the line to get to be a real production O/S. I guess i'm just going to have to stick with the much slower Slackware Linux setup I have for now ... if I can get my system running. If there CAN'T be an update/fix of msdosfs, then is it possible that it be disabled before the next release comes out - maybe 2.1.1 (2.1.5?) or what have you? There is very little about this in either the handbook or the FAQ and newbies to FreeBSD (like myself) may start really hating it after awhile. Tim -- Timothy Brown netSolutions, L.L.C. PGP Key Available; Encrypted Email Preferred 2733 McClay Valley Blvd UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows 95, Win3.1 St. Peters, MO 63376 Internet Connectivity Consultant Office: [+1 314 303 2949] HTML Design and Web Publishing BBS: [+1 314 928 5250] http://walden.mo.net/~tb/ Pager: [+1 314 670 9464] http://www.netsolutions.com On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Scott Blachowicz wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Okay... just installed FreeBSD the other day and I like it a lot. This > > > morning and last night i've had to deal with massive filesystem > > > corruption. A lotof files are getting screwed up and i'm not sure what > > > to do. > > > > Are you using msdos FS in read/write mode? > > Sounds like what I get when I mount an msdosfs in ANY mode (read/write OR > read-only) on my 2.0.5-RELEASE system (I haven't been brave enough to try > it ont the 2.1.0-mumble-SNAP system I have access to). It seemed to be > related, somehow, to having used FIPS to shrink my DOS partitions to make > room for a real OS. From discussions I've seen, it seems to be a problem > in the FreeBSD msdosfs (as opposed to FIPS) - mounting the DOS partitions > seems to work just dandy from DOS/Windows, Windows NT and Linux. > > I bailed out of the idea of mounting my DOS slices under FreeBSD. I > either switch to Linux or use 'mtools' to monkey around with my DOS drives > from a UNIX. > > 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 >