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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: someone please fix mount_pcfs Date: 19 Aug 1994 04:20:52 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 36 Message-ID: <331bv4$qt7@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <32uvui$dov@Venus.mcs.com> <32vqda$oe5@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <32vqda$oe5@panix2.panix.com> rpritz@panix.com (richard) writes: ] Michael Borowiec (mikebo@MCS.COM) wrote: ] : It would be nice if mount_pcfs would mount a DOS partition from a ] : DOS only hard disk (one without a UNIX disk label). [ ... ] ] while it is not that hard to disklabel a dos only drive, you are ] absolutely right. if other os's can do it (including linux), why can't ] freebsd read a drive without requiring that the drive be disklabeled? ] seems like a hassle for users, with no particular gain. ] ] what are we missing? Look, I have argued and argued and argued "the right thing" until I'm blue in the face. I have in excess of 2300 lines (105k) of "what the right thing is" that I could post again and again. And less than 300 lines of diffs that I can't post that "do the right thing" and have been tested on my machines in excess of a year (yes, I just counted both sets of files). If you want to have me mail the documentation (all the list and news discussions on the architecture issues and problem resoloutions), I can dump it in your mailbox, or you can look at the news archive on minnie and the list archive on (freebsd?freefall?).cdrom.com. To answer your question: we are missing a motivated person to do the coding that can then release the code without fear of "contaminating" the sources yet again. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.