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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news1.cle.ab.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!scramble.lm.com!news.dhp.com!jaeger From: jaeger@dhp.com (jaeger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 10 May 1996 18:56:06 GMT Organization: DataHaven Project +1 412 421 4516 (DHP.COM) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4n03g6$167@dhp.com> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org> <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960509212509.5051H-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+color] 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.