Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions.
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@nyc.deshaw.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/24/1997 22:49:56
In article <19970324214916.YH08116@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
>Better name it `dosdump'?  Remember, there's more DOSes than just M$.
>Also, we do already have a mkdosfs(8), maybe somebody would even write
>a dosfsck(8).  (mkdosfs doesn't understand harddisks however.  I'm not
>the right person to ask for this, my DOS knowledge is too weak.)
>
>Ideally, all this should probably named s/dos/fat/g.  It's a more
>descriptive name of this filesystem.

We do have fsck_msdos, and we are using your mkdosfs as newfs_msdos...
The dump should become dump_msdos...
It would be nice if we shared the same naming conventions.

christos