Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.0 and/or -current and Windows '95 VFATs
To: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@laurin.teuto.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/20/1995 07:41:19
[Writing to Windows 95 partitions via NetBSD's msdos filesystem]

> Writing is another story. These additional entries are ignored by the
> current version of msdosfs. Thus the implicit links between the entries for
> the long names and the standard entries will be broken up, if you delete
> a file/directory on a Win95 partition.

Win95 takes care of this (thats what the checksums are for). It simply
works, but breaks your long filenames if you rename a file using NetBSD.


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)