From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 18:20:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA08053 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 18:20:05 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA08048 ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 18:20:02 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA16419; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 18:16:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510130116.SAA16419@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: problem To: scott@statsci.com Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 18:16:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, dima@escape.com, questions@freebsd.org, support@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Scott Blachowicz" at Oct 12, 95 02:58:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1111 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > And in my experience (read: one system), it is broken, period. Are you talking > of _disks_ > ~500Mb or _filesystems_? When I messed with msdosfs on my system > (a 1Gb IDE disk & a 1.4Gb SCSI disk on a 2.0.5R installed from CD) I ended up > getting corrupted BSD partitions for my trouble - even when I only mounted the > msdos slices read-only. And I don't have any slices or filesystems that are > that big. > > The system works great now that I don't get anywhere near the msdos slices. I > CAN just use the mtools package to get at my msdos disks anyways - not as > convenient, but it does seem to work. > > I would LOVE to hear that things have been fixed up in later releases...I > might even try it once I get good backups and a recovery plan thought out... It would help diagnose the problem to make page 0 inaccessable in kernel mode to cause a kernel fault. This would probably fail on pre-486 because of the failure to honor the WP bit in protected mode. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.