> know whether these changes will affect NetBSD'd ability to properly read/write
> an MSDOS partition?

I have Windows 95 installed on one of my NetBSD boxes since early beta
times and am able to read and write its partitions without any problems.
Its a pitty you don't see the long filenames from NetBSD yet, but the
format is not fully documented. Actually only the algorithm for one
checksum is unknown...

I have a (not quite finished) fsck for dos partitions that understands
(and can list) the long filenames.


Martin

-- 
"Die freie Routine setzt einen Zeiger auf den freigegebenen Storage,
verlangt aber nicht, dass die Groesse der Speicherteile freigesetzt
wird."	-- german translation of "The Design and Implementation of the
	   4.3BSD Unix Operating System", p.64; probably talking about free(3)