From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 14:18:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A79A16A4CE; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:18:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca [131.104.48.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1BD43D3F; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:18:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca) Received: (from rick@localhost) by snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11526; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:18:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:18:34 -0500 (EST) From: rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca Message-Id: <200403292218.RAA11526@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org cc: tech@openbsd.org cc: alfred@freebsd.org cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Nfsv4 server port X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:18:37 -0000 YIKES!! I didn't realize I had left some MIT KerberosV code in the tarballs. I have replaced the MIT KerberosV code with Heimdal sources and made up new, MUCH SMALLER, tarballs, that you should download and use in place of what was ftpable for the last week or so. There are also a few fixes in the newer code. So, PLEASE, PLEASE, replace/discard any kernel code you downloaded and grab the new tarballs. Sorry about that, rick ps: A FreeBSD4 port will be up in a few days and then I plan on switching from OpenBSD2 to OpenBSD3. (I'm still hoping someone else will take on the task of a NetBSD port?) From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 14:18:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4F216A4CE; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:18:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from totem.fix.no (totem.fix.no [80.91.36.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5B143D2F; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anders@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (totem.fix.no [80.91.36.20]) by totem.fix.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B682ED393; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 01:18:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from totem.fix.no ([80.91.36.20]) by localhost (totem.fix.no [80.91.36.20]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12468-02; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 01:18:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by totem.fix.no (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EE3CC2ED38C; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 01:18:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 01:18:56 +0200 From: Anders Nordby To: "Semen A. Ustimenko" Message-ID: <20040331231856.GA12441@totem.fix.no> References: <20030824090933.GA99463@totem.fix.no> <20030827033302.X631-100000@main.the.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030827033302.X631-100000@main.the.net> X-PGP-Key: http://anders.fix.no/pgp/ X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: 1E0F C53C D8DF 6A8F EAAD 19C5 D12A BC9F 0083 5956 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NTFS file size limit in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:18:41 -0000 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello, On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:39:55AM +0700, Semen A. Ustimenko wrote: >> I don't have a disk with the particular filesystem lying around yet (it >> was an USB disk I had borrowed), but I'll try to establish a test >> environment and re-create my problem so I can answer your questions. >> I'll get back to you. Thanks! >> > I have got a 20Gb NTFS partition full of 1.3Gb files. They all can be > perfectly read... What was the size of the partition you encountered the > problem on? > > I suspect the problem can only shows itself on volumes of greater size, > like 32Gb, 64G or 128Gb or even more... > > Otherwise, the problem could have happened because of enormous file > fragmentation... > > Well, I can't reproduce the problem :( I need your particular feedback... Re. PR kern/48316. I recently got myself a 300 GB USB disk (which is mine, wohoo!). And I figured I'd look into this again. Now, I formatted the whole disk with one big NTFS partition in Windows 2000 (all recent service packs included). The result of "chkdsk c:" is attached. But if I now try to write anything on this filesystem, I only get error messages. I have attached a transcript where I show some data about the disk/partition, and what happens if I try to mount and copy a file to the partition. Why can I not copy anything to this NTFS partition? Is NTFS writing a no-go? PS: I only tried the new disk + NTFS partition in FreeBSD 5.2.1 (using FreeSBIE actually) this time, let me know if you want me to try another version of FreeBSD or anything that can be of help. Cheers, -- Anders. --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ntfs-usb.txt" Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>chkdsk d: The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is FATTY. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Index verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... Security descriptor verification completed. Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute. CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap. Windows found problems with the file system. Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these. 292961308 KB total disk space. 10704 KB in 7 files. 16 KB in 13 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 74936 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 292875652 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 73240327 total allocation units on disk. 73218913 allocation units available on disk. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ntfs-usb-2.txt" root@FreeSBIE:/etc# dmesg | grep ^da1 da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da1: 1.000MB/s transfers da1: 286103MB (585938944 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36473C) root@FreeSBIE:/etc# fdisk -1 da1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=36473 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=36473 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 63, size 585922617 (286095 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 631/ head 254/ sector 63 root@FreeSBIE:/etc# mount_ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt root@FreeSBIE:/etc# cp /COPYRIGHT /mnt/ cp: /mnt/COPYRIGHT: No such file or directory root@FreeSBIE:/etc# umount /mnt root@FreeSBIE:/etc# mount -o rw -t ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt root@FreeSBIE:/etc# cp /COPYRIGHT /mnt/ cp: /mnt/COPYRIGHT: No such file or directory root@FreeSBIE:/etc# ls -l /COPYRIGHT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6189 Feb 23 14:34 /COPYRIGHT root@FreeSBIE:/etc# ls -l /mnt/ total 87936 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2560 Apr 22 2009 $AttrDef -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 0 Mar 25 19:02 $BadClus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9155048 Apr 22 2009 $Bitmap -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 8192 Mar 25 19:02 $Boot drwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 0 Mar 25 19:02 $Extend -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 67108864 Mar 25 19:02 $LogFile -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 4096 Mar 25 19:02 $MFTMirr -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 0 Apr 22 2009 $Secure -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 131072 Mar 25 19:02 $UpCase -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 0 Mar 25 19:02 $Volume drwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 0 Mar 25 19:06 WUTemp -rwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 13631488 Mar 25 19:11 vmdisken root@FreeSBIE:/etc# df -k /mnt Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da1s1 292961308 88280 292873028 0% /mnt root@FreeSBIE:/etc# mount | grep mnt /dev/da1s1 on /mnt (ntfs, local) --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q-- From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 08:23:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FBF16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:23:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.pilgerer.de (hamlet.pilgerer.de [213.133.123.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826EE43D41 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benny@pilgerer.de) Received: from hamlet.pilgerer.de (hamlet.pilgerer.de [213.133.123.43]) by hamlet.pilgerer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i31GMr7m069385 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:22:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from benny@localhost) by hamlet.pilgerer.de (8.12.10/8.12.7/Submit) id i31GMrYP069384 for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:22:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:22:53 +0200 From: Benjamin von Mossner To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040401162253.GA69135@vonmossner.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on hamlet.pilgerer.de X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.0.6; AVE 6.24.0.7; VDF 6.24.0.79 Subject: msdosfs and FAT16 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:23:08 -0000 Hi list, i have a problem mounting my mp3player, attached via umass on FreeBSD 5.2.1. It is recogniced correctly (from my point of view). # uname -a FreeBSD bensons.bejuwg.intern 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Wed Mar 24 02:01:10 CET 2004 benny@bensons.bejuwg.intern:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/BENSONS i386 # -- messages go here [snip] Apr 1 18:14:13 bensons kernel: umass0: , rev 1.10/10.01, addr 2 Apr 1 18:14:13 bensons kernel: GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc37ca050 Apr 1 18:14:13 bensons kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Apr 1 18:14:13 bensons kernel: da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device Apr 1 18:14:13 bensons kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Apr 1 18:14:13 bensons kernel: da0: 121MB (248832 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 1 21C) [snap] option MSDOSFS is compiled into kernel # grep -c MSDOSFS /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/BENSONS 1 # kldload msdosfs kldload: can't load msdosfs: File exists Now when i try mounting, i recieve the following error. # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/mass msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument # Even better a # dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=temp count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.005233 secs (97844 bytes/sec) # strings temp FAT16 # The device is found by fdisk, i "could" do a newfs for sure and furthermore i can mount it under Solaris 9, OSX and Billy-OS but not FreeBSD 5.2.1.... Help would be greatly appreciated :) Cheers benny -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN | Benjamin von Mossner \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL | benny@vonmossner.de X / \ multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 07:51:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C704C16A4CF for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:51:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565B843D2F for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:51:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i32FpePq036926; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:51:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i32FpWgB036922; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:51:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:51:32 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Benjamin von Mossner In-Reply-To: <20040401162253.GA69135@vonmossner.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-1323241231-1080921092=:26412" cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs and FAT16 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:51:46 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --0-1323241231-1080921092=:26412 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Benjamin von Mossner wrote: > i have a problem mounting my mp3player, attached via umass on FreeBSD > 5.2.1. It is recogniced correctly (from my point of view). Hey, I wonder if this is the same mp3player as the Acer multi-function player I bought recently when in Taipei. > Now when i try mounting, i recieve the following error. > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/mass > msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument > # Because that's certainly the same error. > The device is found by fdisk, i "could" do a newfs for sure and > furthermore i can mount it under Solaris 9, OSX and Billy-OS but not > FreeBSD 5.2.1.... > > Help would be greatly appreciated :) There's some excessively strong sanity checking in the msdosfs code in FreeBSD, which is commented out in Apple's version that they grabbed from us. I commented part of it out in -CURRENT to get my player working, although not yet all of it. You probably want src/sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c:1.119. I've attached a copy of the patch. I have plans to merge this to -STABLE for 4.10, but haven't had a chance to test it on a -STABLE box. I don't anticipate any complications. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research --0-1323241231-1080921092=:26412 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="msdos.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-ID: Content-Description: SW5kZXg6IG1zZG9zZnNfdmZzb3BzLmMNCj09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09 PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09 PT0NClJDUyBmaWxlOiAvaG9tZS9uY3ZzL3NyYy9zeXMvZnMvbXNkb3Nmcy9t c2Rvc2ZzX3Zmc29wcy5jLHYNCnJldHJpZXZpbmcgcmV2aXNpb24gMS4xMTgN CnJldHJpZXZpbmcgcmV2aXNpb24gMS4xMTkNCmRpZmYgLXUgLXIxLjExOCAt cjEuMTE5DQotLS0gbXNkb3Nmc192ZnNvcHMuYwkyMSBGZWIgMjAwNCAyMjo0 NzoxOSAtMDAwMAkxLjExOA0KKysrIG1zZG9zZnNfdmZzb3BzLmMJMTQgTWFy IDIwMDQgMjM6Mjg6MTIgLTAwMDAJMS4xMTkNCkBAIC0xLDQgKzEsNCBAQA0K LS8qICRGcmVlQlNEOiBzcmMvc3lzL2ZzL21zZG9zZnMvbXNkb3Nmc192ZnNv cHMuYyx2IDEuMTE4IDIwMDQvMDIvMjEgMjI6NDc6MTkgYmRlIEV4cCAkICov DQorLyogJEZyZWVCU0Q6IHNyYy9zeXMvZnMvbXNkb3Nmcy9tc2Rvc2ZzX3Zm c29wcy5jLHYgMS4xMTkgMjAwNC8wMy8xNCAyMzoyODoxMiByd2F0c29uIEV4 cCAkICovDQogLyoJJE5ldEJTRDogbXNkb3Nmc192ZnNvcHMuYyx2IDEuNTEg MTk5Ny8xMS8xNyAxNTozNjo1OCB3cyBFeHAgJAkqLw0KIA0KIC8qLQ0KQEAg LTM5OCw3ICszOTgsNyBAQA0KIA0KIAkvKiBYWFggLSBXZSBzaG91bGQgcHJv YmFibHkgY2hlY2sgbW9yZSB2YWx1ZXMgaGVyZSAqLw0KIAlpZiAoIXBtcC0+ cG1fQnl0ZXNQZXJTZWMgfHwgIVNlY1BlckNsdXN0DQotCQl8fCAhcG1wLT5w bV9IZWFkcyB8fCBwbXAtPnBtX0hlYWRzID4gMjU1DQorCQl8fCAhcG1wLT5w bV9IZWFkcw0KICNpZmRlZiBQQzk4DQogICAgIAkJfHwgIXBtcC0+cG1fU2Vj UGVyVHJhY2sgfHwgcG1wLT5wbV9TZWNQZXJUcmFjayA+IDI1NSkgew0KICNl bHNlDQo= --0-1323241231-1080921092=:26412-- From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 08:46:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1D116A4CE; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.pilgerer.de (hamlet.pilgerer.de [213.133.123.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3CD43D2F; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:46:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benny@pilgerer.de) Received: from hamlet.pilgerer.de (hamlet.pilgerer.de [213.133.123.43]) by hamlet.pilgerer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i32Gkb7m099769; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 18:46:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from benny@localhost) by hamlet.pilgerer.de (8.12.10/8.12.7/Submit) id i32GkbGh099768; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 18:46:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 18:46:37 +0200 From: Benjamin von Mossner To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20040402164637.GA99391@vonmossner.de> References: <20040401162253.GA69135@vonmossner.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on hamlet.pilgerer.de X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.0.6; AVE 6.24.0.7; VDF 6.24.0.81 cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs and FAT16 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:46:54 -0000 Hi, to prerecord, the patch did the trick :) # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/mass # mount [...] /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/mass (msdosfs, local) [...] On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:51:32AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Benjamin von Mossner wrote: > > > i have a problem mounting my mp3player, attached via umass on FreeBSD > > 5.2.1. It is recogniced correctly (from my point of view). > > Hey, I wonder if this is the same mp3player as the Acer multi-function > player I bought recently when in Taipei. It is a PixelView MP3 Player. But i think thats just the reseller here, software states VMax which makes some sense with the product code MP3-V360FM-128. > There's some excessively strong sanity checking in the msdosfs code in > FreeBSD, which is commented out in Apple's version that they grabbed from > us. I commented part of it out in -CURRENT to get my player working, > although not yet all of it. You probably want > src/sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c:1.119. I've attached a copy of the > patch. I have plans to merge this to -STABLE for 4.10, but haven't had a > chance to test it on a -STABLE box. I don't anticipate any complications. Thank you very much. I applied the patch, recompiled the kernel and now i can mount it. Perfect. Best regards benny -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN | Benjamin von Mossner \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL | benny@vonmossner.de X / \ multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind