Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:58:42 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul G Webster <mailinglists@alchemy-networks.co.uk> Subject: Re: 8.0-RC2 mangles msdosfs Message-ID: <20091105165842.GC34407@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20091104154044.GA96964@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <permail-2009110317462380e26a0b00007a25-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <4AF1869D.6090304@bsdforen.de> <20091104154044.GA96964@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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On Wed, 04.11.2009 at 16:40:44 +0100, Alexey Shuvaev wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:50:21PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > Alexander Best wrote: > > > Paul G Webster schrieb am 2009-11-03: > > > *lol* just tried this myself and my fdisk output looks just as bad as yours: > > > > I think funny fdisk output is not that much of a problem. > > > > [snip] > > > > What I wonder is - are there more people who witness file > > system corruption upon msdosfs writes (and don't forget > > that either newfs_msdos or fsck_msdosfs is broken as well, > > and that fsck_msdosfs certainly does not recognize > > cross-linked files). The impact is so horrid that I had > > to reformat my portable player (with Windows) and reinstall > > the firmware to get it back going. > > > The relative silence on the mailing list seems to show it is not > the common problem... Indeed, on my main desktop, running 8.0something I regularly copy MP3/OGG files to a FAT16 (!) MP3-Player and albeit the copying is slow and produces "funny" dmesg output, I have yet to observe a corruption of the FS. Bye, Uli
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