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From: jaeger@dhp.com (jaeger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
Date: 10 May 1996 18:56:06 GMT
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Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com) wrote:

: On 8 May 1996, Nick Kralevich wrote:

[SNIP]
: > Has FreeBSD fixed their broken DOS FS support yet?  Does
: > FreeBSD have VFAT (Win 95) support yet?

  Ha, supporting something like VFAT would be useful to only a small
percentage of FreeBSD users. If it's done at all, it should go to the very
bottom of the TODO.

: I'm not very familar with this problem but I've never had a problem with 
: FBSD's msdos fs.. 

  On the contrary, the when I last installed Linux (Duncecap^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
RedHat 2.1) I found the msdos->unix test file conversion (option conv= ) to
be horribly broken.  I assume the Linux camp has it's act more together in
3.0.3?  What, you're running a year-old kernel? Didn't someone just accuse
FreeBSD 2.1.0R of being dated....?

-j.