Subject: MS-DOS FS 0.10 (ALPHA) released
From: [email-masked] (Werner Almesberger)
Date: 1 Mar 93 07:42:05 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

I've uploaded a new ALPHA test version 0.10 of the MS-DOS FS to
tsx-11.mit.edu, where it probably will appear in
/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosfs/dosfs.10.tar.Z and to sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/Incoming/dosfs.10.tar.Z

This is basically a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs that were
already present in earlier versions and an incompatibility with kernels
>= 0.99pl5. The relevant section of the CHANGES file is attached to
this posting.

It can be added to Linux 0.99pl6 and probably also to 0.99pl5, but I
didn't try the latter. The patch is relative to 0.99pl6. It will
probably not work with 0.99pl7, but more on that later.

If you have the ability to test this, then please do. If there is
enough testing, the "new" MS-DOS FS might even make it into Linux 1.0.

- Werner

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CHANGES FROM VERSION 9 TO 10
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  - lowered the 12 bit FAT limit from 4086 to 4078 clusters.
  - added new mount option "fat".
  - bad sectors in files now imply EOF.
  - disallowed creation of directories '.' and '..' in root.
  - improved boot sector sanity checks.
  - fixed a race condition in RSS_FREE (misc.c)
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