Re: PATCH drivers/scsi/scsi.c fs/fat/inode.c fs/fat/misc.c
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:06:53 +0200
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:38:53AM +0000, Farrell Woods wrote:
> o The Format UDF! utility supplied with the Panasonic drive will lay
> down a UDF, FAT16, or FAT32 filesystem. When asked to do FAT32 it
> puts down both a partition that spans the entire DVD-RAM disc as
> well as a filesystem. However it does not use the "fsinfo" structure
> that appears to be expected when a FAT32 filesystem is encountered.
> Instead the "fsinfo" sector offset is 0xffff. The change to inode.c
> will cause it to not read the fsinfo structure in this case.
Rather than changing the kernel to accommodate this broken filesystem, why
not run a program which fixes the filesystem after formatting? And report
the bug to Panasonic while you're at it..
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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