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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 1998 02:28:35 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk
Subject:   Re: Should a corrupt floppy disk cause a panic?
Message-ID:  <199811081528.CAA07261@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Subject: Should a corrupt floppy disk cause a panic?

Yes.

>This is question on policy.
>
>The msdosfs will panic and the system will die if you mount a 
>floppy with a corrupt format. I have an image of such a floppy
>and I can crash my system every time.

Suitably damaged ffs file systems should also cause panics (as soon as
possible so that the damage doesn't grow).  fsck_foofs must be run
before mounting [possibly-]damaged foofs file systems.  This is not so
easy for msdosfs file systems since there is no fsck_msdosfs.

Bruce

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