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| author |   tom <tom@openbsd.org> | 2005-02-28 16:00:37 +0000 |
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| committer | tom <tom@openbsd.org> | 2005-02-28 16:00:37 +0000 |
| commit | a5788d7020595cfc6a7a874f822016c6b4bd1011 (patch) | |
| tree | 71bb00254dd03dba53bf7542d17bfe37484a1833 | |
| parent | document the public interface to PkgSpec. (diff) | |
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Document some limitations of the MS-DOS filesystem.
Input from yaredy@, krw@, miod@, jmc@, deraadt@.
ok for earlier versions todd@, jmc@
ok final version deraadt@
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 b/sbin/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 index c612fd7e020..29d610375e8 100644 --- a/sbin/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 +++ b/sbin/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mount_msdos.8,v 1.19 2005/02/28 09:50:27 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mount_msdos.8,v 1.20 2005/02/28 16:00:37 tom Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: mount_msdos.8,v 1.10 1996/01/19 21:14:43 leo Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993,1994 Christopher G. Demetriou @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ This forces .It Fl G This option causes the filesystem to be interpreted as an Atari-Gemdos filesystem. -The differences to the msdos filesystem are minimal and +The differences to the MS-DOS filesystem are minimal and limited to the boot block. This option enforces .Fl s . @@ -168,6 +168,17 @@ and was abandoned in favor of the more aptly named .Nm mount_msdos . .Sh CAVEATS +The maximum file size supported by the MS-DOS filesystem is +one byte less than 4GB. +This is a FAT filesystem limitation, documented by Microsoft +in Knowledge Base article 314463. +.Pp +The MS-DOS filesystem (even with long filenames) does not support +filenames with trailing dots or spaces. +Any such characters will be silently removed before the directory entry +is written. +This too is a FAT filesystem limitation. +.Pp The use of the .Fl 9 flag could result in damaged filesystems, |