Re: [PATCH] fat/inode.c

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

<Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx> writes:

> Two years ago, OGAWA Hirofumi removed some ugly code and
> added a few simple tests to the FAT filesystem code,
> intended to avoid recognizing non-FAT as FAT (for people who
> fail to specify rootfstype=, forcing the kernel to guess).

Yes.

> That worked fairly well, until this year.
> I have now seen a thread in Czech and a report from Holland
> that involved the "FAT: bogus sectors-per-track value"
> error message.
> 
> The patch below removes this test again. The advantage is that
> some real-life FAT filesystems can be mounted again.
> The disadvantage that more non-FAT fss will be accepted as FAT.
> 
> Ferry van Steen <freaky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> reports
> "the patch Andries Brouwer gave me seems to work".

Sounds good. Please apply.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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