fatfs 0.4 released

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hi,

this is fatfs 0.4 coming to you at
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/fatfs-0.4.tar.gz

This release compiles if dropped into the Hurd source tree, but is otherwise
fully untested.  I am afraid that I broke stuff while integrating Marco's
patches.  Somebody will surely give it a try and find out, but I don't have
a fat filesystem on my Hurd system so I couldn't easily try.

Most of the changes are due to Marco Gerards' invaluable patches.  He found
a couple of bugs and implemented some new features.  Here is an overview:

* Support for filesystems of any size (eg, not limited to 2gb, but rather to
  2gb of metadata, which is endless).

* New options --uid and --gid to set owner and group id of the files
  (globally).

* The filesystem can report the free space (this will be dog slow on large
  filesystems, because the info block is not yet supported), and the size of
  the root dir on FAT32.

* A couple of bug fixes and clean ups that should make it work on FAT32
  systems as well as FAT12/FAT16.

As I only integrated Marco's patches, and did a few other changes, do NOT
use this on a filesystem you have precious data on.  Make a copy of your
filesystem instead and try it on that.  The nature of the changes I did
implies that you can easily lose data if I made a bug.  You have been
warned.

Another round of patches and we can check this into the Hurd source tree and
maintain it there.

Thanks,
Marcus

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