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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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