Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.0-test9 | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:57:32 +0900 |
| |
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes:
> > Pls forward. > > The first FAT entry should have the media byte (0xf0,0xf8,...,0xff) > extended with all 1 bits in the first FAT entry. > Checking this is a good idea, it prevents us from mounting garbage > as FAT - there is no good magic for FAT. > Unfortunately, Windows does not enforce this, and 2.4 doesn't either. > It turns out that there are filesystems around (two reports so far) > that have a zero first FAT entry, and work under Windows and 2.4 but > fail to mount under 2.6. > > So, the below weakens the test.
Looks good to me. I have no objection.
However, the following may be a bit useful info.
I tested on win2k and win95 installed at now.
win95's scandisk reported and fixed this problem. win2k's chkdsk detect problem and fixed. But GUI tool doesn't detect, and can't fixed. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |