Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:42:21 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu>, kodiak@Rigel.orionsys.com, uwp@ukrv.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coping Files From MS-DOS to a BSD Partitian? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.95.970321143744.115707A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199703211514.RAA05277@eac.iafrica.com>
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Robert Nordier wrote:
> If your DOS filesystem has a cluster size exceeding 16K, don't use any
> FreeBSD release earlier than 2.2. It's that simple. :-)
>
> If you follow the rule above, the msdosfs is quite usable. It has
> various bugs, but it works reasonably well for simple operations.
I can vouch for that. I have used my DOS filesystem extensively in
FreeBSD, reading, writing, using Unix zip and unzip, etc. My only
complaint is the ^M character that pops up in text files due to DOS/Unix
differences. I've not had any errors pop up in FreeBSD or DOS, including
lost sectors, etc.
IMHO FreeBSD's DOS support is in great shape. I suppose I'm just lucky to
have 8K clusters in my FAT.
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