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Umsdos utilities for umsdos 0.4 uploaded

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Feb 4 17:01:14 1995

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 20:53:08 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu

X-Mn-Key: announce

From: jack@solucorp.qc.ca (Jacques Gelinas)
Subject: Umsdos utilities for umsdos 0.4 uploaded
Keywords:  UMSDOS MSDOS file system utilities umssync 0.7 FAT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system

Here they are. They compiles cleanly with gcc 2.6.2 and the newer
kernels (1.1.86 and up). They are smaller. Please note that udosctl and
umssetup are now symlinks to umssync. This save some disk space
since those utilities were sharing quite a bit with umssync.

There has been some bug fixes. Two important features were added.
First check the option -c (-c+ to be exact). It allows umssync
to operate only on already "promoted" directories (with a --linux-.---).
So you can safely do something like

/sbin/umssync -c+ -i+ -r99 /

at boot time in /etc/rc.d/rc.S for example. Also, umssync won't get
below a non promoted directory, assuming that you have never umssync'ed
there. So this command won't create new --linux-.--- all around.

Umssync has also another feature (a bug fix indeed). The previous
umssync was not able to do any useful job when a directory contain
some unsynced DOS file with a mangled extension like this:


	toto.{_1

It was shouting that the file could not be synced and should be rename.
And not much was told. User had to boot DOS to fix thing. This kind
of problem generally happen after a crash or after a new umsdos user just
shut down his new box the hard way ...

This release do the rename for you. It act only on the extension.
It send a message loud and clear. It chooses extension starting
with a dollar sign and ending with 2 numbers. Easy to spot later.
It then synced that new renamed file in --linux-.---.

	toto.$05

With this we are getting closer to a real umsdos.fsck. Only the
hard link validation is left to be done and the integration
with the already available msdos.fsck.

Here is the LSM, comments are welcome!

begin3
Title:             Tools for Umsdos file system 0.4 (kernel 1.1.86)
Version:           0.7
Entered-date:      30JAN95
Description:       Set of tools to manage a umsdos file system.
                   Include umssync and umssetup.
                   Minor enhancement and bug fix since the 0.5 release.
                   Option -c+ for one.
                   The binary package is linked with libc.so.4.6.27.
Keywords           UMSDOS MSDOS file system Optimisation 0.7 FAT driver
Author:            jacques@solucorp.qc.ca (Jacques Gelinas)
Maintained-by:     jacques@solucorp.qc.ca (Jacques Gelinas)
Primary-site:      sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/umsdos
                   35413 umsdos_progs-0.7.src.tar.gz
                   8283  umsdos_progs-0.7.bin.tar.gz
Copying-policy:    Kernel stuff: GNU public license
end

--------------------------------------------------------
Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)
Ever think of installing unix without partitionning ?
Use UMSDOS, and enjoy LINUX!

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