From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 20:38:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA28767 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:38:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA28755 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.4/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id UAA23221 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:38:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA07670; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:35:56 -0500 Message-Id: <199603160435.XAA07670@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Availability of Win95 Filesystem on FreeBSD? To: davidc@pdd.3com.com (David Clear) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:35:56 -0500 (EST) From: "John Brann" Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <22533.9603150857@isolan.pdd.3com.com> from "David Clear" at Mar 15, 96 09:00:55 am From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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