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Annotation of dmsdos/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.2

1.1.1.2 ! root        1: The project is long time abandoned but it can be still usable to rescue
        !             2: data from old STACKER and DOUBLESPACE volumes.
        !             3: 
        !             4: The version dmsdos-0.9.2.3-pre2-alt2 is based on patches found at
        !             5: 
        !             6: http://packages.altlinux.org/en/Sisyphus/srpms/dmsdos/get
        !             7: 
        !             8:  2012-06-07 Fr. Br. George <george at altlinux.ru> 0.9.2.3-alt2
        !             9:     - Fix gcc4.6 build
        !            10: 
        !            11:  2012-03-25 Fr. Br. George <george at altlinux.ru> 0.9.2.3-alt1
        !            12:     - Initial build
        !            13: 
        !            14: The modified version disables kernel code build which allows
        !            15: to build userspace tools for volume dump.
        !            16: 
        !            17: *** Old Entries ***
        !            18: 
1.1       root       19: New in this release (since dmsdos 0.9.2.1):
                     20: 
                     21: * THIS RELEASE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND ITS USAGE WITH 2.3.x
                     22:   is DANGEROUS.
                     23: 
                     24: * Experimental WIP to support 2.3.x kernels. It is DANGEROUS, because
                     25:   mmap support is missing for 2.3.x. Basic functionality for 2.3.30
                     26:   was obtained.
                     27:   Found bug and provided patch to solve write after end of file or dir
                     28:   cluster allocations fails in newer 2.2.x kernels (2.2.13 tested).
                     29: 
                     30: New in this release (since dmsdos 0.9.2.0):
                     31: 
                     32: * Small changes for dmsdos to compile under 2.2.x kernels. WARNING: A serious
                     33:   bug in the vfat filesystem can hang the system when using dmsdos under 
                     34:   Linux kernel version 2.2.0, 2.2.1 and 2.2.2. This bug is triggered by
                     35:   dmsdos. At the time of writing, 2.2.3 has not been released yet. 
                     36:   See file INSTALL.TXT how to fix this bug.

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