Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 20:13:50 MET From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: alexandr@louie.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FS Help Message-ID: <9512061910.AA11954@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <9512061635.aa16642@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu>; from "Jerry Alexandratos" at Dec 06, 95 11:35 am
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> The big one though is that I'm not mounting my DOS partition. Not to > add fire to the flame, but.... 8( Does anyone really think that this > may be the cause of my FS becoming corrupted? I've gotten some > responses that say the msdosfs is most likely to blame. There must be > people out there who are using this in a stable fashion. If so, could > someone please give me some pointers. I need to set up Samba to serve > files off of that partition. According to some mail on the lists, there are some races in the msdosfs. You *might* be fine as long as you have only one msdosfs access at a time; otherwise, kiss your superblocks goodbye. > Time for specifics. At one point the DOS partition was read-write > instead of read-only. Likewise, it was rw by a group of people (there > was some common work that needed to be done). Could any of this be > giving me the problems of corrupting my FS? Yes. Read only seems to be safe enough (seems not to damage other FS's) /Alby
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