From: 2843600@ccs-lab10 (Steve Frampton) Subject: Re: Bug in 'msdos' file system? Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 02:20:40 GMT
danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
:
: Without knowing the internals too well, my sense is telling me that it's
: a BAD IDEA to move files between two file systems, especially between as
: different ones as Linux and DOS has. In cases like that the files
: probably should be copied, not moved because I imagine mv leaves the
: actual data in place and only relinks directory pointers to that data.
Ah. Hadn't thought about something like that. :-) Guess it serves me
right, having embraced MS-DOS for so long. :-(
Anyway, even 'efsck' couldn't help me. I turned out that I had to reinstall
the OS -- and guess what? Disk #10 is corrupted. :-( Oh well, version 1.0
must be due for release soon, isn't it?
As an aside, since Linux supports the 'msdos' file system, perhaps the
kernel in the future could recognize that a 'mv' is being attempted to a
different file system and act accordingly?
Also, for those who maintain the TAMU release: more error checking is
required during the installation. I got to diskette #10, and the installation
program bombed due to an unsupported compressed format or something like that.
This was more than likely a simple read error (since I have installed from
these disks before) that a quick retry might have been able to clear up. :-(
Thanks for the explanation.
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