Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:40:19 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, root@synthcom.com Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes Message-ID: <199601091140.WAA18562@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> There are several reports that enabling DOS f/s read/write can damage >> other file systems. I haven't seen such a report for a long time, or such report with enough details (not even from me after I saw the problem :-) >It seems that if you use FIPS or PRESIZE or "Partition Magic" to resize >your partition, the cluster size will not be reduced. >This results in crap being written out to the "phantom" locations as if >it were a bigger disk. This should only affect the slice containing the DOS file system. The device number would have to be corrupted for a write to affect another device. >There is some indication that mark-for-update occurs on read-only devices, >and that for MSDOSFS, this update actually takes place. I think this was fixed a long time ago. Bruce
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