Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:06:49 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs 240G Message-ID: <200610092206.49993.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <375baf50610091643n4a283023i6457bb1bcfdf8926@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060925220057.hqu0378bjk04gccg@webmail.cs.vt.edu> <fa8f05950609260421i3de38232n4191cbdabf4688c3@mail.gmail.com> <375baf50610091643n4a283023i6457bb1bcfdf8926@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 09 October 2006 18:43, Kevin Sanders wrote: > On 9/26/06, Alistair Sutton <alistair.sutton@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 26/09/06, sanya <sanya-spb@list.ru> wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I have a problem with mounting big fat32 partition. > > > > I had a similar problem when trying to mount a 180G USB drive. > > > > Recompiling my kernel with the MSDOSFS_LARGE option allowed me to > > mount the drive. > > I wonder why this isn't the default? because support for this is not deemed stable in environments that have X number of files in the file system, where X is "a number i cannot remember right now, but its a lot more than i have or ever will have". hundreds of thousands or more. cheers, jonathan
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