Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 1999 16:18:22 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: FAT32 driver annihilated my filesystem...all before noon |
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On Fri, 7 May 1999, Aziwoqpd wrote:
> fat_free: skipped EOF > ry sread (sector 0x16a096d6) failed. > attempt to access beyond end of device > 08:04: rw=0, want=189811563, limit=88839945 > directory sread (sector=0x16a096d6) failed. > > blah blah blah, about 6 million entries of that with the want= value > incrementing every now and again, and ending with the nice killer: > > Filesystem panic (08:04) > FAT error > Directory 383816: Bad FAT > > Oh yeah, it got another error at the end I thought particularly cute: > <4>FAT: fat_truncate called through fs is read-only, uhh... > Last Message Repeated 47 times > > If anyone figures out what the hell happened, please email me at > azi@lfx.org. I'm not on the kernel mailing list. Until this is fixed, I > guess I can't trust the FAT32 driver with partitions over 8.4GB.. damn. > At least I have a backup of that drive, only lost 2 days of work...
Try 2.2.7 + fat-patch-17 (due for submission to Linus in a week or so). Patch lives on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/fat-patch-17.gz HTH, Al
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