Messages in this thread | | | From | tmg@bc ... | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 1999 00:48:19 -0600 | Subject | Re: update_vm_cache? |
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> One of the reasons why FAT is badly b0rken is the damn 'text mode'. I.e. > automagical translation of \r\n to \n and back. It is *wrong*. Not to > mention the fact that it screws up on binaries and relies on the list > of known extensions (barf) to do its magic. Or that renaming such files > changes their visible contents. Worse yet, open, rename, read, close, > open, read again and there you go - second read may return something > pretty different. IMO such thing has no place in the kernel...
It's quite horrible.. the only reason I use it is to access some data from an old DOS partition once in a while. I can live without fat support (or use an older kernel to cp the data then nuke the partition) I was just curious why it would be broken deliberately.
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