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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 2013 00:26:18 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/176746: Document a bug (unusual 2K block media) with src/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/
Message-ID:  <20130309001459.P1812@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <201303081205.r28C52AL001954@lapr.js.berklix.net>
References:  <201303081205.r28C52AL001954@lapr.js.berklix.net>

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On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

>> Description:
> Document a 2K block media bug to src/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/fsck_msdosfs.8
>
>> How-To-Repeat:
> Analysis here
> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sigmatel/#bsd2k
>
>> Fix:
> Apply patch (appended)
> -----------
> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/
>
> *** 9.1-RELEASE/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/fsck_msdosfs.8	Sat Nov 17 09:47:20 2012
> --- new/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/fsck_msdosfs.8	Thu Mar  7 23:28:43 2013
> ***************
> *** 121,123 ****
> --- 121,126 ----
>  .Nm
>  utility is
>  .Ud
> + .br
> + Devices with 2K media blocks fail, for analysis & work around see
> + http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sigmatel/#bsd2k
> -----------
>
> The real fix will be to write some C.
> This bug affects at least both FreeBSD & NetBSD.
> Both were informed to mail lists, links to both archives here
> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sigmatel/#bsd2k
>
> If I write (unikely) or hear of patches to fix it, they will first appear here:
> http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/

This is reported and fixed in PR 153426.

Bruce



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