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VFAT 0.3.0 for 1.3.59 Kernels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Feb 3 17:16:52 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:16:02 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: chaffee@odie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Gordon Chaffee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: VFAT 0.3.0 for 1.3.59 Kernels
X-Original-Date: 3 Feb 1996 04:33:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Release: vfat 0.3.0 (Previously named xmsdos)
This is an alpha release of the merged fat/vfat filesystem for Linux that
can handle Windows 95 and Windows NT long filenames. When modules are
created, there are 4 possible modules. fat is the lowest layer module.
vfat and msdos can be loaded on top of fat, and umsdos can be
loaded on top of msdos.o. This work was provided by Henrik Storner.
A bug where you could try to move a directory onto itself and wipe out
anything underneath was fixed.
Be warned, it may do irrepairable damage to your directories and your
disk. Most likely, it won't. If you mount the filesystems as read-only,
you shouldn't have anything to worry about. It was tested on Linux 1.3.59
and Windows NT 3.5. It does not work on NTFS partitions.
Where to get:
http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/vfat.html
or
ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/linux/vfat/vfat-0.3.0.tgz
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to Galen C. Hunt <gchunt@cs.rochester.edu> for the very useful
information he provided on creating the short filename checksum and the
structure of the long filenames.
Thanks to Michael R. Gile <gilem@rpi.edu> for his information about
the case bits for the DOS filename entry and his excellent bug reports.
Thanks to Gilles Vollant <100144.2636@compuserve.com> for telling me
what was broken in the 1.3.x kernels. Gilles wrote doslfn, a package
with the same functionality as vfat. We intend to work together to
create an excellent combined package.
Thanks to Steve Searle <steve@mgu.bath.ac.uk> for finding a bunch of
problems with certain filenames under Windows 95. He provided fixes
and changes to the filesystem to make it work much more like the
Windows 95 implementation.
Thanks to Henrik Storner <storner@osiris.ping.dk> for doing the work
of merging the msdos and vfat filesystems.
Additional thanks to Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@imag.fr> and
David C. Niemi <niemidc@clark.net> for comments in email discussions.
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Gordon Chaffee
chaffee@bugs-bunny.cs.berkeley.edu
http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee
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