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diff --git a/doc/ANNOUNCE.mkdosfs b/doc/ANNOUNCE.mkdosfs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f02ea2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/ANNOUNCE.mkdosfs @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.3b (Yggdrasil) + +It seems I didn't get the bug completely fixed in 0.3a. Some +borderline cases would still allocate too many sectors for the FAT. +Again, nothing to worry about, just a nitpick -- this one would only +in certain cases add one sector per FAT. + +Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.3a (Yggdrasil) + +Fixed a bug which would cause too many sectors to be reserved for the +FAT (filesystem will still work fine, but have slightly less space +available). + +Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.3 (Yggdrasil) + +This version correctly handles even very large filesystems, and +properly supports the modern (3.3+) DOS bootsector format, including a +message printed on boot attempts. + +Peter Anvin +Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. +hpa@yggdrasil.com + + -------------- + +Announcing the release of mkdosfs version 0.2 + + +I've just uploaded mkdosfs to sunsite.unc.edu. It works in a similar way +to Remy Card's mke2fs, but creates an MS-DOS file system. + +The filename is mkdosfs-0.2.tar.gz. + +This second release should fix a small bug that could lead to FAT sizes that +Linux's dosfs would accept but MS-DOS wouldn't. + +The archive contains a manual page, binary and source versions. + + +Dave Hudson +dave@humbug.demon.co.uk |