Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:26:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Christopher Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's interaction with MS-DOS partitions Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904220025440.2393@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <1240344374.1032.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1240344374.1032.33.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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> ms-dos partition. For example, I attempted to download a torrent with > ctorrent. Works perfectly if I am saving to the bsd partition but my > whole system freezes if I use the ms-dos partition. > > I mount it in /etc/fstab as "/dev/ad0s2 /d msdosfs rw 0 0" > > Is this behaviour the result of the 0 0? no. it's a result of ms-dos fs driver which is just useful to do read/write, even this isn't high performance ;) mmap is probably buggy that's why rtorrent crash. i don't think anyone really optimized this, not much need anyway.
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