Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:28:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org, uwp@ukrv.de
Subject:   Re: ports/3205: Mtools-3.0 fails to WRITE to dos partition under 2.2 (fix supplied)
Message-ID:  <9704101128.AA22355@merlin.ukrv.de>
In-Reply-To: <199704101031.UAA31370@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 10, 97 08:31:55 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Actually, vfs_bio, not msdosfs, in pre-2.2 versions of FreeBSD can

I had problems with msdosfs since 2.0 until now (2.1.6).

> destroy all partitions on all disks, not just msdosfs partitions, if a
> single msdosfs partition with a cluster size of > 16K is mounted, even if
> it is mounted read-only.  msdsofs partitions larger than 1GB have a block
> size of > 16K, so they have the problem.  Smaller partitions may also
> have the problem, e.g., ones that were shrunk from larger than 1GB to
> smaller than 1GB using a shrinker that doesn't change the block size.

This is extremely bad...:-( Maybe there should be a warning before mounting ?

Bye,
	Udo

--
Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de
!!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?9704101128.AA22355>