Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:11:41 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: VFAT problem |
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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jon Stanley wrote:
> I have a VFAT (FAT32) filesystem that started behaving strangely once I > upgraded to 2.2.1. It involves handling of directories, and is a little > hard to explain, but here goes: > > Say for example that I am in /mnt/win95/cdda and type cd .. One would > expect that to take me to /mnt/win95, right? Wrong! It takes me to > /mnt sometimes, and sometimes it will do the correct thing. Similar strange > occurences were happening throughout this filesystem. So I decided to go > back to 2.0.36, so I typed cd /etc and then pico lilo.conf. Then it siad > that there was no such file. So I exited pico, and I was back in > /mnt/win95/cdda. These directories are not random, they are all > directories that I have used before. Is there any upgrade or something > that I am overlooking, or is this really a bug? BTW, I went back to > 2.0.36, and all is behaving normally.
Can you reproduce it? That is, give a sequence of commands (starting from mount) that gives unexpected result. BTW, what shell are you using?
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