Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:09:10 +0000 From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net> To: Jordan Klein <haplo@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount_msdos -- is it safe yet? Message-ID: <33D3A5C6.2781E494@tri-lakes.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970721165642.2699C-100000@dilbert.my.net>
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Jordan Klein wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > > > > Has the support for DOS mounts in RELENG_2_2 progressed yet to the point > > > where it would be safe to mount my 1.6 gig DOS/Win95 drive (one huge > > > partition) without fear of corrupting my ufs? > > > > > > Sorry if this is an untimely question, but I haven't seen it come up in a > > > while. > > > > I'm not sure if it is your UFS partitions that are in danger of being > > corrupted, but rather the DOS partitions. I have mounted my DOS > > partitions as read-only for quite some time now without any problems at > > all. I have even on occasion remounted them as writable and thrown some > > files on them. I think as read-only they are quite safe. The only time > > there may be some problems, if there are still any problems to speak of, > > is when they are writable. > > > > I don't know about that. A while back, I mounted my win95 partition > (1 gig) just to send a file over the internet to someone. Once that was > done, my UFS partition was trashed, forcing me to reinstall FreeBSD. I > don't remember the exact version of FreeBSD I was using at the time. I > think it may have been 2.1-Stable, or 3.0-Current. Since then, I have > been VERY gunshy mounting dos partitions. > > I have mounted my dos partition several times with 2.2-Stable, and have > yet to receive any problems, though. > I apparently escaped the problem without knowing it by mounting drives no larger than 528MB (i always split my DOS drives up to make up for the FAT kludge of wasting cluster space). I ususally have about 5 DOS partitions mounted, all 528 MB except for the last one which is even smaller.
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