Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions.
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/24/1997 15:32:37
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:49:16 +0100
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.cyber.com.au/pub/unix/msdump.tgz
>
> 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.)
..actually... I'd suggest a naming scheme that NetBSD is using:
newfs_msdos
fsck_msdos
mount_msdos
dump_msdos
The name is, of course, the string used to identify the file system
in the vfssw[].
Just a suggestion :-)
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