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From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
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Subject: Re: 8.0-RC2 mangles msdosfs
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On Wed, 04.11.2009 at 16:40:44 +0100, Alexey Shuvaev wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:50:21PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > Alexander Best wrote:
> > > Paul G Webster schrieb am 2009-11-03:
> > > *lol* just tried this myself and my fdisk output looks just as bad as yours:
> > 
> > I think funny fdisk output is not that much of a problem.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > What I wonder is - are there more people who witness file
> > system corruption upon msdosfs writes (and don't forget
> > that either newfs_msdos or fsck_msdosfs is broken as well,
> > and that fsck_msdosfs certainly does not recognize
> > cross-linked files). The impact is so horrid that I had
> > to reformat my portable player (with Windows) and reinstall
> > the firmware to get it back going.
> > 
> The relative silence on the mailing list seems to show it is not
> the common problem...

Indeed, on my main desktop, running 8.0something I regularly copy
MP3/OGG files to a FAT16 (!) MP3-Player and albeit the copying is slow
and produces "funny" dmesg output, I have yet to observe a corruption of
the FS.

Bye,
Uli