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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.delphi.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.iii.net!gorilla.iii.net!gurilla From: gurilla@iii.net (*ANONYMOUS*) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: Possible (re)convert from Linux - specific questions Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 13:03:21 GMT Organization: mine Lines: 20 Message-ID: <gurilla.4.0123C9EC@iii.net> References: <42q3ua$f1t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <42q9ak$9ce@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gorilla.iii.net X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] >The same as it was in 2.0, which is the same as it was in 1.1.5. >>2) How about the status of FAT write capability? When I started using >>BSD 1.5, it had FAT read and write capability. Soon, messages came out >>mentioning corruption using the write capability, and stating that >>only read should be used on FAT. By 2.0, this was claimed to be fixed. >I don't remember it ever being claimed to be fixed. >>Of course, soon after 2.0 came out, again issues arose about corruption >>on writing to FAT, so write support was removed. I have not seen this >>made an issue either way since. Is FAT file-system supported reliably >>for both reads and writes now? >Nope. In Linux, I usually ended up using it's ftp/telnet to download, which ended up going into my Linux filesystem. Then I copied them into my /dos1 directory, are you saying I can't do that with FreeBSD?