From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 28 17:56:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9CC16A47B for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:56:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE8043C9F for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:56:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (ktuxox@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kASHu6P0017136; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:56:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id kASHu547017135; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:56:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:56:05 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200611281756.kASHu547017135@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, rcoleman@criticalmagic.com, security@jim-liesl.org In-Reply-To: <200611271705.kARH507m045367@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:56:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, rcoleman@criticalmagic.com, security@jim-liesl.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:56:19 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > [...] > Well, the mentioned problems (running out of kernel memory > and NFS export difficulties) can occur with msdosfs file > systems of any size, including ones that are smaller than > 128 GB. It would be really annoying to not be able to > mount a USB stick with a lot of files on a machine with > small RAM (it could panic the machine without warning). > [...] I'm afraid that part of my mail was wrong. If the file system is smaller than 128 GB, the mapping table is not used, even if MSDOSFS_LARGE is enabled in the kernel. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "What is this talk of 'release'? We do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes', leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."