My two cents worth:
I run a system with DOS 6.22. So vfat is very dubious benefit.
I have used the msdos fs, then umsdos, for all of my Linux days.
I've made a point of always running the newest, development kernels.
I compiled and ran most of the 0.99 series kernels from .10 up to the
last days of .15y.
Same for the 1.1 series, and the 1.3 series.
I kept up with 2.1 until about 2.55, but have stopped doing so because
things like umsdos have been broken (I now use 2.0.33, my first ever
stable kernel).
This broken functionality is already costing quiet testers of bleeding
edge kernels, like myself.
Mitch.
PS to all: I don't have time to work on umsdos, but I'm willing to help
test it.
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