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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!wupost!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!oka.cs.wisc.edu!jcargill From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Subject: Re: 386BSD -- What happened to my loadfd command? Message-ID: <1992Oct31.164546.13101@cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison CS Dept References: <Oct.29.18.06.59.1992.22100@ocean.rutgers.edu> <1992Oct30.091651.10922@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 16:45:46 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1992Oct30.091651.10922@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: >andy Rowan (rowan@ocean.rutgers.edu) wrote: >: >: Or, another solution, is there any way to mount a dos-formatted >: floppy as a filesystem (a la 'mount /pcfs' in SunOS)??? >: >I do not like it. It makes OS more complex to understand. >It is already being done for CDROM, but it is meant for SCSI driver only >. If only we have mtools style for CDROM. It will be easier for me to >understand and modify. > I think your reason for not liking it is pretty weak. Sure, virtual memory, the FFS, and a host of other useful things make the OS more complex, too. Personally, I think being able to mount dos-format filesystems would be a *Good Thing*. If we try to keep the OS simple to understand by leaving out useful functionality, we'll never make any progress. Jon -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu Want your .sig compressed? Reasonable rates and fast turnaround. Call today!