Subject: Re: Dilemma. how to store DOS directories ?
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/1997 13:09:34
> I feel a restore_msdos is necessary but what do others think ?  (That
> is remember there could be non-FAT16 information to restore, long file
> names, etc (which NetBSD is meant to support but I haven't yet checked that
> out).
> 

I'd agree, but because 'dump' and 'restore' were meant to be
FFS-specific, and have in the past been arbitrarily changed to match
FFS formats.

Given that the various FAT formats aren't really related, it seems
like a bad idea to try to wedge them into normal 'restore' (or 'dump,'
for that matter).


chris