8.0-RC2 mangles msdosfs

[Dominic Fandrey]

Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:03:29AM +0100, Alexander Best wrote:
>> i guess the freebsd-fs@ guys know about these problems but don't have
>> the time to deal with it.  most of them are probably working on zfs.
> 
> AFAIK there are only a handful of people working on ZFS.
> 
> We certainly need more people willing to work on filesystems code.  In
> general it does have a large learning curve, so it's not as attractive
> as some of the other areas.  That's probably why, as the kernel has
> undergone radical changes (e.g. for SMP) over time, that some of the
> fs code has not kept up.

Is there material, apart from the code, explaining the concepts
behind the FreeBSD file system code? File systems are an
interesting topic for anyone who likes to get into low level
stuff.

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