Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:45:33 +0100 (MET) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: MSDOS fs type broke in 2.2.x |
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From: Ben Rockwood <benr@slip.net>
I noticed that when I installed the 2.2.x kernels that all of my msdos mounts were broken, and fs type "msdos" was unrecognized. Was "msdos" fs support dropped? Was this a config error? I can still use vfat and umsdos fs's.
I haven't found anything about this in any of the 2.2 docs.
(i) If you really use a FAT filesystem, stay with 2.0.36 or so. So far, FAT is seriously broken under 2.2.*.
(ii) In case you installed a very recent util-linux (like 2.9m) then the autodetect will detect vfat when something looks like msdos/vfat/umsdos. [Many people have asked for this - I must have gotten at least twenty patches implementing this - finally let me be convinced by the argument that only "mount -t type device dir" is required to be correct, and that anybody who omits "-t type" gets what she asks for: a heuristic.] So, in case you depended on the old behaviour of the heuristic, things may be a bit different today. When sufficiently many people complain I will go back to the previous state of affairs where we only guessed when there was really good evidence for a particular fs.
Andries
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