frantisek holop wrote:
i think mount_msdos should be disabled as of now.
it is/was causing me too much grief... i don't understand
how can be the quality of the vfat file system so bad in openbsd.
it does not go hand in hand with the great quality and stability
of the system. if nobody cares to fix it, disable it like mount_null.
i also don't understand how is it possible that operations on this
"primitive" file system "tends to result in badness".
especially when so much reference implementations are floating
around (all the other bsd's, linux, embedded devices).
fix it or disable it. it is giving openbsd a bad name.
forgive me my bitterness. i am mourning my lost files.
Interesting to hear more people having issues with mount_msdos. Before I
brought the subject up on the list, I had not heard anything about this.
Since I now heard about the status of mount_msdos, I only mount msdos
partitions read-only. I hope not to have any issues with that.
My first complication led to most of my digital camera images were
unreachable. Thanks to decent fragmentation status of the disk and two
somewhat decent hacks, most of them were saved though. The programs were
actually first used for my brother after he reinstalling windows without
first moving the images away from ``C:\Program Files\Canon...''. It's
such an excellent default storage place for your images, don't you think?
For the archives: Feel free to email me if you need to extract .jpg's or
.avi's from a disk (or it's ripped image file). The hacks are in local
CVS. :-)
/Alexander
