From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 04:46:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D17516A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:46:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077D243FDD for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:46:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp107-81.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.107.81])h9UCkjTn026459; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:16:46 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9UCki1T088725; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:16:44 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: toni@stderror.at, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:16:43 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031029174635.GA1370@stderror.at> In-Reply-To: <20031029174635.GA1370@stderror.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310302316.43057.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: tm@it-austria.net Subject: Re: maxtor onetouch usb 200gb msdosfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:46:51 -0000 On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:16, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > is this a known problem? under linux mounting the fs works > flawlessly. seems like this is a limitation of the freebsd msdosfs > driver. is it possible to port the driver from linux? To the best of my knowledge it's a limitation in the way msdosfs uses fileid (which is a 32 bit quantity) although my knowledge of MSDOS-FS and FreeBSD file system interfaces is basically non-existant. About the only work around would be to split the disk up :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5