Subject: Clean bit bits
To: None <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/18/1996 14:07:10
From: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:08:08 +0100 (MET-1)
No problem. When newdosfs(8) sets the number of reserved sectors to
2 instead of the usual 1, the second reserved sector can be used to
store timestamps and other usefull information (should of course be
protected by a magic number and checksum).
This would not work with original MS-DOS created filesystems, possibly
coexisting on a dual use harddisk or inserted into the floppy disk,
would it?
Ignatios Souvatzis