maxtor onetouch usb 200gb msdosfs

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:16, Toni Schmidbauer wrote:
> is this a known problem? under linux mounting the fs works
> flawlessly. seems like this is a limitation of the freebsd msdosfs
> driver. is it possible to port the driver from linux?

To the best of my knowledge it's a limitation in the way msdosfs uses fileid 
(which is a 32 bit quantity) although my knowledge of MSDOS-FS and FreeBSD 
file system interfaces is basically non-existant.

About the only work around would be to split the disk up :(

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