Re[2]: [Devil-linux-develop] msdos filesystem

[Serge L. <fi...@in...>]

Dear Heiko,

Saturday, October 22, 2005, 3:54:29 PM, you wrote:

> use the vfat file system, this allows you to use long filenames.
> msdos has the 8.3 limitation.
You are absolutely right. 8.3 limitation corrupts file name.
I've rolled back MSDOS support.

But save-config refuses attempt to save on a usual floppy. Was it
possible to work with msdos filesystem earlier? I've never used floppy
before so I'm not sure that it was able.

-- 
Best regards,
 Serge                            mailto:fi...@in...


> On Sat, October 22, 2005 05:07, Serge Leschinsky wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>> When I was testing 1.2.7 I found that I can't mount msdos filesystem
>> (floppy ) for config saving. The blank floppy is found, the default
>> config is copied there, but the save-config informs about unsupported
>> filesystem. Can anybody check it?
>>
>> As for me, I was obliged to do a small modification:
>>
>>
>> --- /home/serge/work/DL/build/scripts/config/config_linux
>> 2005-04-11 23:08:21.000000000 +0400
>> +++ build/scripts/config/config_linux 2005-10-22 13:54:15.000000000 +0400
>> @@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@
>> CONFIG_JBD=y
>> # CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
>> CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
>> -# CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
>> +CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
>> # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
>> CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
>> # CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Serge                          mailto:fi...@in...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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