From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 17:17:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A43016A4D6 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:17:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.76.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9776F43FE1 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:17:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tjr@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (210.50.36.138) by smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.020) id 3F8F522A0049782F for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:17:25 +1100 Message-ID: <3FA1B8DB.1020005@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:20:27 +1100 From: Tim Robbins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Experimental patch to support large MS-DOS filesystems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 01:17:27 -0000 If you're feeling adventurous and have access to a relatively large MS-DOS formatted disk that gives a "disk too big, sorry" error when you try to mount it, please try out this patch and let me know how it goes: http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/fileno32.diff (http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=40907) I don't have access to disks big enough to cause the error message, so don't be surprised if it doesn't work. Although there is very little chance of it causing data loss, it'd be best to try it on a read-only filesystem first, and to make sure that you have backups. Tim