Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:16:43 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: toni@stderror.at, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: tm@it-austria.net Subject: Re: maxtor onetouch usb 200gb msdosfs Message-ID: <200310302316.43057.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031029174635.GA1370@stderror.at> References: <20031029174635.GA1370@stderror.at>
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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
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