Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:32:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> Cc: grog@lemis.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <13396.849033126@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Nov 1996 12:49:02 %2B0200." <199611261049.MAA02308@eac.iafrica.com>
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> FWIW, the table below represents a couple of months of collecting > data from users on -questions, who reported that the msdosfs had > seriously corrupted a UFS partition. Cool! I'd hoped someone was working on trying to establish the common aspects of these failures, since they only seem to bite some people and not others, but again - I'd not dared to hope too much. :-) > Unless someone is aware of the problem being more general, it may > be worth patching the msdosfs code to (by default) refuse to access > DOS FSes with > 16 sectors per cluster on such drives. Sounds reasonable to me. If you have any diffs, I'd be happy to commit them. We can't get much worse than we are at the moment. ;) Jordan
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