Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:19:28 +0600 From: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, rcoleman@criticalmagic.com, security@jim-liesl.org Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 Message-ID: <20061128201928.GC71715@samodelkin.net> In-Reply-To: <200611281756.kASHu547017135@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200611271705.kARH507m045367@lurza.secnetix.de> <200611281756.kASHu547017135@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Hi! On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > [...] > > Well, the mentioned problems (running out of kernel memory > > and NFS export difficulties) can occur with msdosfs file > > systems of any size, including ones that are smaller than > > 128 GB. It would be really annoying to not be able to > > mount a USB stick with a lot of files on a machine with > > small RAM (it could panic the machine without warning). > > [...] > > I'm afraid that part of my mail was wrong. If the file > system is smaller than 128 GB, the mapping table is not > used, even if MSDOSFS_LARGE is enabled in the kernel. Looks like MSDOSFS_LARGE should be enabled by default. /fjoe
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