From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 11:16:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA11904 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 11:16:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from Relay1.Austria.EU.net (relay1.Austria.EU.net [192.92.138.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11842 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 11:15:46 -0800 (PST) From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Received: from atusks01.aut.alcatel.at by Relay1.Austria.EU.net with SMTP id AA09528 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 6 Dec 1995 20:14:15 +0100 Received: from atuhc16 by atusks01.aut.alcatel.at (4.1/SMI-4.1/AAA-1.29/main) id AA11954; Wed, 6 Dec 95 20:10:47 +0100 Message-Id: <9512061910.AA11954@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> Received: by atuhc16 (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA10657; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 20:13:50 +0100 Subject: Re: FS Help To: alexandr@louie.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 20:13:50 MET Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9512061635.aa16642@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu>; from "Jerry Alexandratos" at Dec 06, 95 11:35 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > The big one though is that I'm not mounting my DOS partition. Not to > add fire to the flame, but.... 8( Does anyone really think that this > may be the cause of my FS becoming corrupted? I've gotten some > responses that say the msdosfs is most likely to blame. There must be > people out there who are using this in a stable fashion. If so, could > someone please give me some pointers. I need to set up Samba to serve > files off of that partition. According to some mail on the lists, there are some races in the msdosfs. You *might* be fine as long as you have only one msdosfs access at a time; otherwise, kiss your superblocks goodbye. > Time for specifics. At one point the DOS partition was read-write > instead of read-only. Likewise, it was rw by a group of people (there > was some common work that needed to be done). Could any of this be > giving me the problems of corrupting my FS? Yes. Read only seems to be safe enough (seems not to damage other FS's) /Alby