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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD -- What happened to my loadfd command? Message-ID: <7837@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 3 Nov 92 14:22:26 GMT References: <Oct.29.18.06.59.1992.22100@ocean.rutgers.edu> <1992Oct30.091651.10922@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh Lines: 23 In article <1992Oct30.091651.10922@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: >: Or, another solution, is there any way to mount a dos-formatted >: floppy as a filesystem (a la 'mount /pcfs' in SunOS)??? >I do not like it. It makes OS more complex to understand. It doesn't have to be done in the kernel. It would be possible to write an NFS server that provided access to an MSDOS disk as a filesystem. I did this for minix floppies on a Sun. It would be somewhat harder for MSDOS floppies since I don't think MSDOS has anything like inode numbers, so you'd have to do the file handles some other way. Even if it's in the kernel, it should just be another VFS filesystem type, so I don't see why it makes anything harder to understand. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, Human Communication Research Centre, R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University.