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Date:      09 Sep 1998 13:33:40 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?=  =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Mark Blackman <tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem.
Message-ID:  <xzpk93dlduz.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Mark Blackman's message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 11:38:47 %2B0100"
References:  <199809091038.LAA07810@bird.te.rl.ac.uk>

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Mark Blackman <tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk> writes:
> Thanks for clearing that up for me. So in summary, the
> od/scsi-related patches in kern-7210 are superceded by the CAM work,
> but the msdosfs-related patches are still meant to be applied if you
> want this 2048-byte block functionality in msdosfs.

Such is my understanding.

> This then would imply (questions of labour aside) that the
> msdosfs-related patches are appropriate for inclusion in CURRENT at
> some convenient point, no?

It would seem so, yes.

> I do understand that there literally hundreds of more important
> things for the kernel gods to address, but I just want to add my
> (possibly irrelevant) vote for increasing it's priority somewhat.

I'm not a kernel god, but I'm a committer and I have an MO drive at
home, and the PR is assigned to me anyway. I'm very forgetful though,
so feel free to refresh my memory at regular intervals :)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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