Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:35:56 -0500 (EST) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: davidc@pdd.3com.com (David Clear) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Availability of Win95 Filesystem on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199603160435.XAA07670@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <22533.9603150857@isolan.pdd.3com.com> from "David Clear" at Mar 15, 96 09:00:55 am
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David Clear wrote... > > > Hi, Two questions: > > + Can FreeBSD 2.1 msdosfs read/write my Windows 95 partition with long > file names? Yes, though you won't see the long names, just the elided 8 character ones. > > + Can I trust FreeBSD not to trash my '95 filesystem? (I remember in > the past, the msdos filesystem was write-once, read-no-more). Trust, tricky word that. It works for me, but I don't use it much. All the horror stories I've seen refer to systems where FIPS was used to create the FreeBSD partition. I used Win95's FDISK, and re-installed it. > > If the answer to either of those is no, are there any estimates on when > this may happen? (ok, 3 questions) I believe the MSDOSFS stuff is being worked on - ask the hackers for details. > > Regards, > David. > John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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