From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 12 13:28:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13652 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA13645 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA19294; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:28:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710122028.NAA19294@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: VFAT/? Problem To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:28:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19971012100919.57478@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Oct 12, 97 10:09:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It is a warning of a non-standard MSDOSFS configuration, nothing more > > or less. It shows up to "warn you". 8-). > > It may be a "non standard MSDOSFS configuration" but in my case it is a > normal MSDOS configuration. I have a 200 MB primary DOS slice, the FreeBSD > slice (2.8 GB) and a 1.1 GB extended DOS slice. I always get the warning > when I mount the last DOS slice. > > I've never used FIPS or other slice reduction programs. But you did pick something other than "use maximum possible space" when creating the DOS partition (clearly, if it's near the end of the disk, it's not likely to do the "minimal cluster size" right on the expected boundary. The use of extended DOS slices postdates the mtools release from which the warning algorithm was derived. Really, the slice code needs to change to a hiearchical model, and the MSDOSFS code needs rewritten. Removing the message before the code is otherwise rewritten would be a mistake. Consider the message going away as "payment" for doing the rewrite. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.