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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