From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 17:25:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA11378 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11360 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA24794; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:24:25 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199512080124.RAA24794@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Filesystems corrupted - what's up with this? To: tb@MO.NET (Timothy Brown) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:24:25 -0800 (PST) Cc: scott@statsci.com, terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Timothy Brown" at Dec 7, 95 05:04:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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. > trouble is there are so few of us and so many things thjat need to be done.. some of us have day jobs too. > Tim