Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:03:01 -0700 From: "Kevin Sanders" <newroswell@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: mount_msdosfs 240G Message-ID: <375baf50610100803r28cb467ageee71aae5b06686a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200610092206.49993.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <20060925220057.hqu0378bjk04gccg@webmail.cs.vt.edu> <fa8f05950609260421i3de38232n4191cbdabf4688c3@mail.gmail.com> <375baf50610091643n4a283023i6457bb1bcfdf8926@mail.gmail.com> <200610092206.49993.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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On 10/9/06, Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 18:43, Kevin Sanders wrote: > > On 9/26/06, Alistair Sutton <alistair.sutton@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 26/09/06, sanya <sanya-spb@list.ru> wrote: > > > I had a similar problem when trying to mount a 180G USB drive. > > > > > > Recompiling my kernel with the MSDOSFS_LARGE option allowed me to > > > mount the drive. > > > > I wonder why this isn't the default? > > because support for this is not deemed stable in environments that have X > number of files in the file system, where X is "a number i cannot remember > right now, but its a lot more than i have or ever will have". Good to know. It looks like there are a couple PR's related to large MSDOSFS's. I have a 400gb USB drive that I can use to check these problems out with if I have time this weekend.
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