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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:56:05 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
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:  <200611281756.kASHu547017135@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <200611271705.kARH507m045367@lurza.secnetix.de>

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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.

Best regards
   Oliver

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