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RE: Umsdos over VFAT?



Ira Abramov wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> > Does anyone know if it's possible?  I managed to mount a VFAT
> > filesystem as umsdos, but I wander if it's going to screw up the
> > partition when Win95 access it as a VFAT.
> 
> it won't screw up, BUT, if you try to run ls on an msdos (maybe also
> umsdos) mounted volume that has long filenames, you will get kernel alerts
> about volume not mounted -t vfat.
> 
> Isn't there a umsdos over Win95 FAT32? 

no, and as far as my estimations go, UMSDOS will soon be dropped
altogether. i.e.: FAT chance :)
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In that case I'll think I write a UMSDOS/VFAT kernel patch. Stay tuned...

	Shlomi Fish

P.S:
Isn't it a drag that MS-Exchange doesn't support the > before the quoted lines? I think I'll write something to fix it.


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