Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:31:14 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Brian M. Kincaid" <bmk0@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MSDOSFS_LARGE option -- problem solved Message-ID: <4266CA22.3020605@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4266AA9D.20606@pacbell.net> References: <4266AA9D.20606@pacbell.net>
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Brian M. Kincaid wrote: > Hello, > > My "problem" with mounting a FAT32 80GB disk disappeared after I > removed from my kernel config file > > option MSDOSFS_LARGE > > and replaced it with > > option MSDOSFS > > Thanks to those who responded to my earlier post. > > Brian Hmm, maybe so. The MSDOSFS_LARGE option was quoted as: "The MSDOSFS_LARGE kernel option has been added to support FAT32 file systems bigger than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It uses at least 32 bytes of kernel memory for each file on disk; furthermore it is only safe to use in certain controlled situations, such as read-only mount with less than 1 million files and so on. Exporting these large file systems over NFS is not supported." in the 5.3-RELNOTES. Unfortunately, I didn't read that before I put a 200 GB drive in my USB enclosure and formatted it as FAT32, thinking that it would work well no matter what box I hooked it to. If only I could hack C.... Kevin Kinsey
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